AND ROUND THE WORLD.
calms, till ten o’clock, the next morning, when a breeze
fprung up at W. S. W. With this we ftretched in for the
land ; and by the help of our glafs, difcovered people, and
fome of thofe coloffian ftatues or idols mentioned by the
authors of Roggewein’s Voyage *. At four o’clock in the
P. M. we were half a league S. S. E. and N. N. W. of theN. E.
point of the ifland; and, on founding, found thirty-five
fathoms, a dark fandy bottom. I now tacked and endeavoured
to get into what appeared to be a bay, on the Weft
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fide of the point or S. E. fide of the ifland; but before this
could be accomplifhed, night came upon us, and we flood
on and off, under the land, till the next morning; having
founding from feventy-five to an hundred and ten fathoms,
the fame bottom as before.
On the 13th, about eight o’clock in the morning, the wind, Sunday 135,
which had been variable moft part of the night, fixed at
S. E., and blew in fqualls, accompanied with rain; but it was
not long before the weather became fair. As the wind now
blew right on the S. E. fhore, which does not afford that
fhelter 1' at firft thought, I refolved to look for anchorage on
the Weft and N. W. fides of the ifland. With this view I bore
up round the South point; off which lie two fmall iflots ;
the one, neareft the point, high and peaked, and the other
low and flattifh. After getting round the point, and coming;
before a fandy beach, we found foundings thirty and forty
fathoms, fandy ground, and about one mile from the fhore.
Here a canoe conducted by two men, came off to us. They
brought with them a bunch of plantains, which they fent
into the fhip by a rope, and then they returned afhore. This-
gave us a goojl opinion of the iflanders, and infpired us with
See Dairy tuple's Colle&ian of Voyages, vol. in
fiopes