ir o. the beach. At five in the evening, we were abreaft of a
ApriL , point of land which rofe in a perpendicular cliff; and which,
Saturday H f o r ( h a t r e a fo n > J called pOINT U P R IG H T . Our latitude WaS
35° 35 S. when this Point bore from us due weft, diftant
about two leagues: in this fituation, we had about thirty-
one fathom water with a fandy bottom. At fix in the evening,
the wind falling, we hauled off E.N.E. and at this time
the northermoft land in fight bore N. by E. f E. At midnight,
being in feventy fathom water, we brought to till
Sunday 22. four in the morning, when we made fail in for the land;
but at day-break, found our fituation nearly the fame as it
had been at five the evening before, by which it was apparent
that we had been driven about three leagues to the
fouthward, by a tide or current, during the night. After
this we fleered along the fhore N. N.E. with a gentle breeze
at S.W. and were fo near the land as to diftinguifh feveral of
the natives upon the beach, who appeared to be of a black,
er very dark colour. At noon, our latitude, by obfervation,
was 35° 27'S. and longitude 309" 23'W. Cape Dromedary bore
S. 28 W. diftant nineteen leagues, a remarkable peaked hill,
which refembled a fquare dove-houfe, with a dome at the
top, and which for that reafon I called the Pigeon H ouse,
boreN. 32° 30'W. and a fmall low ifland, which lay clofe
under the fhore, bore N.W. diftant about two or three
leagues. When I firft difcovered this ifland, in the morning,
I was in hopes, from its appearance, that I Ihould have
found fhelter for the Ihip behind it, but when we came near
it, it did not promife fecurity even for the landing of a boat:
I fhould however have attempted to fend a boat on fhore, if.
the wind had not veered to that direftion, with a large hollow
fea rolling in upon the land from the S.E. which indeed
had been the cafe ever fince we had been upon it. The coaft
ffill continued to be of a moderate height, forming alternately
nately rocky points and fandy beaches;; but within, between ttgf
Mount Dromedary and the Pigeon Houfe, we faw high
mountains, which, except two, are covered with wood:
thefe two lie inland behind the Pigeon Houfe, and are remarkably
flat at the. top, with, fteep rocky cliffs all round
them, as far as we could fee. The trees which almoft every
, where clothe this country, appear, to be large and lofty.
This day the variation was found to be 9° 50 E. and for thc-
two laft days, the latitude, by obfervation, was twelve or
fourteen miles to the fouthward of the fhip’s account, which
could have been the effedt Of nothing but a current fetting
in that direction. About four in the afternoon, being near
five leagues from the land, we tacked and flood off S. E. and
E. and the wind having veered in the night, from E. to N. E.
and N. we tacked about four in the morning, and flood in, Monday aj.
being then about nine or ten leagues from the fliore. At
eight, the wind began to die away, and foon after it was
calm. At noon, our latitude, by obfervation, was 35° 38',
and our diftance from the land about fix leagues. Cape Dromedary
bore S. 37 W. diftant feventeen leagues, and the
Pigeon Houfe N. 40 W .: in this fituation we had feventy-
four fathom water. In the afternoon, we had variable light
airs and calms, till fix in the evening, when a breeze fprung
up at N. by W.: at this time, being about four or five leagues
from the fhore, we had feventy fathom water. The Pigeon
Houfe bore N. 45 W. Mount Dromedary S. 30 W. and the
northermoft land in fight N. 19 E.
We flood to the north eaft till noon the next day, with a Tueflay zy,
gentle breeze at N. W. and then we tacked and flood weft-
ward. At this time, our latitude, by obfervation, was 35°
11 s. and longitude 208° 51' W. A point of land which I had
difcovered on St. George’s day, and which therefore I called
C ape G eorge, bore W. diftant nineteen miles, and the
L s Pigeon