•76?- number of nets, laid in heaps like hay-cocks, and covered December. . 1
'--------- ' with a thatch to keep them from the weather, and we fcarcely
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entered a houfe where fome o f the people were not employed
in making them. The fifh we procured here were fharks,
fling-rays, fea-bream, mullet, mackrel, and fome others.
The inhabitants in this bay are far more numerous than in
any other part of the country that we had before vifited ; it
did not appear to us that they were united under one head,
and though their towns were fortified, they teemed to live
together in perfetfl amity.
It is high water in this bay at the full and change of the
■ moon, about eight o’clock, and the tide then rites from
.fix to eight feet perpendicularly. It appears, from fuch ob-
fervations as I was able to make of the tides upon the fea-
coaft, that the flood comes from the fouthward; and I have
reafon to think that there is a current which comes from the
weftward, and fets along the fhore to the S. E. orS.S.E. as
the land happens to lie.
CHAP.
CHAP . V.
Range from the Bay o f IJlands round North Cape to £>ueen
Charlottes Sound; and a Defcription o f that P a r t o f
the Goaf.
ON Thurfday the 7th of December, at noon, Cape Bret
176g.
bore S. S. E. S E. diflant ten miles, and our latitude, by
December.
Thurfday 7. obfervation, was 34° 59' S ; toon after we made feveral ob-
fervations of the fun and moon, the refult of which made
our longitude 185° 36' W. The wind being againft us, we
had made but little way. In the afternoon, we flood in
fhore, and fetched clofe under the Cavalles, from which
iflands the main trends W. byN.: feveral canoes put off and
followed us, but a light breeze fpringing up, I did not chufe
to wait for them. I kept Handing to the W. N. W. and N. W.
till the next morning ten o’clock, when I tacked and flood Friday s.
in for the fhore, fr'om which we were about five leagues
diflant. At noon, the weftermofl land in fight bore W. by S.
and was about four leagues diflant. In the afternoon, we
had a gentle breeze to the weft, which in the evening came
to the fouth, and continuing fo all night, by day-light Saturdays,
brought us pretty well in with the land, feven leagues to the
weftward of the Cavalles, where we found a deep bay running
inS. W. by W. and W. S. W. the bottom of which we
could but juft fee, and there the land appeared to be low and
level. To this bay, which I called D o u b t l e s s B a y , the entrance
is formed by two points, which lie W. N. W. :and
E. S. E. and are five miles diflant7 from each other. The
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