B.Q;OK
I .797-;
OÜobër.
2<5th.
fepie. direction, and i We; . had ;:not winfi enough
bf enable us to follow the dire<fticin of the coaft.
'/Atho.on it bore frorg us ]ST. 27a E . fix or feven.
miles the point, and an high hummock, iflp S.,W. .one.
mile; we.had thefea open to the;§,.;S.,E. a n d S ^W .;,
inevery pther direction we -faw.iflands, fome. juft
appearing through the haxe. I counted thirty of
various magnitude. ;■ On 'the large ones Wet«; extenfivC;
•villages, fituated in final! bays, well wooded with
landy beaches, and every acceffible part feemed to
he .cultivated. Boats were fifhing, apd the water
was,, p e rfid y finooth, with „ fre e ly any; wind to
difturb • it or affift our motion. . Our foundings,
before, we cleared the paflage inpreafed : to > l^ o a n d ,
15 fathoms, and after decreafed to-JO fatjiomv
mud.
Light airs and calms, with a current felting us
to the :S. W .; we paffed within SO yards of the
Hummock Ifland, which appeared to us inaceeflfible;
wehoweverfaw fome people upon it whom I fuppofe
were filhermen. .
tin, the evening we had the wind wefterly, and
we kept plying through the ripening in . a S.S.W.
direction.
tliredtidhiK At • 8 heWè ahehore'd in 15 fathoms, cfofe
in with the' weftern A11 and s. .'Eke night was moderate,
and* the'-current fetriton the N'.E. 'one mile per how?;
Ini the morning, .'the a'w^athéu? jifasTmord clpkfu fhain
fifual-, and bwe &w?!:nmnyi lflands'Janduröold tö thé'
Si<;W. ode Ad!’ ah - èxténfive dfiand rifing to a-great
height in the’-'péntre bore from S-.i6 ° W. to S/-25° W.
The anchoiddb wbfe four
or five*miles 'apart, and’öf confiderabfe.extent; they
Were" alfo well'-’cultivated, but 'wood appeared,
except round the villages: we ftill obferved • feveral
boats i employed* fifïring büt' wé* could not indiice
them td eopte near us. .• A t 2 9 hi wèlgot'ubder why/
and made fail to the JS. W .; ;as I fuppofed the large
ifland to, be 'Quel'paert, ! Is was defirous to* examine’ it/
By noon'it bore from S. 18° E- to SuS5<’ .W. : Humi!
mook Ifland juft yifible N. 40o'E..eightyIeagüesï' A
grotipe of; rocky iftands N. 71° W. tb S. 78° W. A
Angle v One .Sj W. ; a final! fiat ifland Sb 35?; E. two
miles.; Another ifland due; ëaft.
CHAP.
VIII.
Óétober.
Frefh; breezes, which foon brought on-the fame hazy 27th.
weather. 1