The island of Wytootackee is about ten miles in circuit; its latitude from 18 degrees 50 minutes to 18 degrees 54 minutes south, and longitude 200 degrees 19 minutes east.  A group of small keys, eight in number, lie to the south-east, four or five miles distant from Wytootackee and a single one to the west-south-west; the southernmost of the group is in latitude 18 degrees 58 minutes south.  Variation of the compass 8 degrees 14 minutes east.

The people that came off to us did not differ in appearance from the natives of Hervey’s Islands, seen in Captain Cook’s last voyage, though much more friendly and inoffensive in their manners.  They were tattooed across the arms and legs, but not on the loins or posteriors, like the people of Otaheite.  From their knowledge of iron they have doubtless communication with Hervey’s Islands, which are not more than eighteen leagues distant from them.

In the night a breeze sprang up from the south and we continued our course to the westward.

Saturday 18.

On the 18th at sunset we saw Savage Island, and in the night passed by to the southward of it.

Tuesday 21.

At eleven o’clock in the forenoon of the 21st we saw the island Caow from the masthead, bearing north-west by west three-quarters west.  This island is a high mountain with a sharp-pointed top, and is the north-westernmost of all the Friendly Islands.  At noon we saw it very distinctly from the deck, it being then nineteen leagues distant from us.

Thursday 23.

The wind being to the southward we could not fetch Annamooka, at which island I intended to stop, before the evening of the 23rd, when we anchored in the road in twenty-three fathoms, the extremes of Annamooka bearing east by north and south by east, our distance from the shore being half a league.  In the middle of the day a canoe had come off to us from the island Mango in which was a chief named Latoomy-lange, who dined with me.  Immediately on our anchoring several canoes came alongside with yams and coconuts, but none of the natives offered to come on board without first asking permission.  As yet I had seen no person with whom I could recollect to have been formerly acquainted.  I made enquiries after some of our old friends, particularly the chiefs, but I found myself not sufficiently master of the language to obtain the information I wanted.

Friday 24.

Our station being inconvenient for watering at daylight we weighed, and worked more to the eastward where we anchored in twenty-one fathoms; the extremes of Annamooka bearing north 85 degrees east and south 33 degrees west; the Sandy bay south 73 degrees east; our distance from the shore half a league.  Sounded all round the ship and found the ground to be a coarse coral bottom, but with even soundings.