cauſed it to ſwell to that degree, that I had a doubt for ſome time whether it would not coſt me my life.
The vegetables and fruits we obtained on this iſland were but few. There were ſome cocoa trees in the bottom of the bay; and we found beans growing near the ſpot, where the Spaniſh pearl fiſhers or Indians had reſided; and from whence, as we conjectured from the ſtate of their fire-places, they were but lately removed. The miſtol and the chammer tree, mentioned by Mr. Falkner, were ſeen in great plenty, but the fruit produced a nauſea and ſickneſs ſoon after it was ſwallowed. The officer, whom I ſent to the Northward, informed me, that the huts remained which are mentioned in the voyage of Lord Anſon, and conſidered that bay as the moſt convenient for any ſhip that might be obliged to remain at this iſland to refit.
Quibo is the moſt commodious place for cruizers, of any I had ſeen in theſe ſeas; as all parts of it furniſh plenty of wood and water. The rivulet from whence we collected our ſtock, was about twelve feet in breadth, and we might have got timber for any purpoſe for which it could have been wanted. There are trees of the cedar kind a ſufficient ſize to form maſts for a ſhip of the firſt rate, and of the quality which the