tjfflfc was open, it bore N. W. We then fleered W. S. W. by the
:— "— f compals for Cape Quod* which is three leagues diftant from
ldaj' '■ the fouthermoft point o f the Sound. Between Elizabeth
Bay and Cape Quod, is a reach about four miles over, called
Crooked Reach. At the entrance o f Jerom’s Sound, on the
north fide, we faw three or four fires, and foon afterwards
perceived two or three canoes paddling after us. At noon,
Cape Quod bore W. S. W. -i W. diftant four or five miles, and
foon after, having light airs and calms, we drove to the eaft-
ward with the flood tide; in the mean time the canoes came
up, and after having paddled about us fome time, one of them
had the refolution to come on board. The canoe was o f
bark, very ill made, and the people on board, which were
four men, two women, and a boy, were the pooreft wretches
I had ever feen. They were all naked, except a (linking
feal fkin that was thrown loofely over their ihoulders; they
were armed, however, with bows and arrows, which they
readily gave me in return for a few beads, and other trifles.
The arrows were made of a reed, and pointed with a green
ftone: they were about two feet long, and the bows wer,e
three feet; the cord o f the bow was the dried gut o f fome
animal. In the evening, we anchored abreaft o f Bachelor’s
River, in fourteen fathom. The entrance o f the River bore
N. by E. diftant one mile, and the northermoft point o f Saint
Jerom’s Sound W. N. W. diftant three miles. About three
quarters o f a mile eaftward of Bachelor’s River, is a fhoal,
upon which there is not more than fix feet water when the
tide is out: it is diftant about ha lf a mile from the fhore,
and may be known by the weeds that are upon it. The tide
• flows here, at the full and change of the moon, about one
• o’clock. Soon after we were at anchor, feveral Indians came
on board us, and I made them all prefents of beads, ribands,
and other trifles, with which they appeared to be greatly
2 delighted.
delighted. This vifit I returned by going on fliore among 1765-
them, taking only a few people with me in my jolly boat, .___L>
that I might not alarm them by numbers. They received us FrI ay
with great exprefiions of kindnefs, and to make us welcome,
they brought us fome berries which they had gathered for
that purpofe, and which, with a few mufcles, feem to be a
principal part, i f not the Whole o f their fubfiftence.
At five o’clock, in the morning of the 2d, we Weighed, Saturd»y a.
and towed with the tide, but at ten, having no wind, and
finding that we drove again to the eaftward, we anchored,
with the ftrearn anchor in fifteen fathom, upon a bank
which lies about half a mile from the north fhore: after
veering about two-thirds of a cable, we had five and forty
fathom along-fide, and (till deeper water at a little diftance.
The fouth point o f Saint Jerom’s Sound bore N. N. E. diftant
two miles, and Cape Quod W. S. W. diftant about eight miles.
From the fouth point o f Saint Jerom’s Sound, to Cape QUod,
is three leagues, in the direétipn o f S. W. by W. The tides
in this Reach are exceedingly ftrong, though very irregular:
we found them fet to the eaftward from nine o’clock in the
morning till five o’clock the next morning, and the other
four hours, from five to nine, they fet to the weft ward. At
twelve o’clock at night, it began to blow very hard at
W. N. W. and at two in the morning, the fhip drove off the Sunday 3.
bank: we immediately hove the anchor up, and found both
the flukes broken off: till three o’clock we had no ground,
and then we drove into fixteen fathom, at the entrance of
Saint Jerom’s Sound; as it ftill blew a ftorm, we immediately
let go the beft bower, and veered to half a cable.
The anchor brought the fhip up at fo critical a moment, that
we had but five fathom, and éven that depth was among
breakers. We let go the fmall bower under foot, and at
five, finding thé tide fet to the weftward, and the weather
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