2 i6 L O R D A N S O N ' S V O Y A G E
C H A P . VIII.
Oar proceedings at §{uibo, with an accotmt of the
place. '
TH E next morning, after our anchoring, an officer was
difpatched on fhore to difcover the watering place, who
having, found it, returned before noon; and then we fen-t
the long-boat for a load of water, and at the fame time we weighed
and Rood farther in with our fltips. At two we came again
to an anchor in twenty-two fathom, with a bottom of rough gravel
intermixed with broken (hells, the watering place now bearing
from us N. W. f N , only three quarters of a mile didanr. A .
plan of the road where we lay and of the Eaft' end of the Illand is
annesed, where the foundings are laid down, fuch as wefound
them, the latitude of the S. E. ppint of the Illand being, as hath
been already mentioned, 7 0 : 20' North.
This I (land of Quibo is extremely convenient for wooding and
watering ; fince the trees grow clofe to the high-water mark, and
a large rapid dream of frefh water runs over the fandy beach into
the fea: So that we were little more than two days in laying in
all the wood and water we wanted. The whole Ifland is of a
very moderate height, excepting one part. It confids of a continued
wood fpread all over the whole furface of the country, which
preferves its verdure the year round. Amongd the other wood,
we found there abundance of caffia, and a few lime-trees. ‘ It
appeared Angular to us, that confidering the climate and the (hel-
ter, we (hould fee no other birds than parrots, paroquets, and
mocKaws; indeed of thefe lad there were prodigious flights. Next
to thefe birds, the animals we found in mod plenty were monkey!"
and guanos, and thefe we frequently killed for food ; for notwithdanding