'A canoe came into the bay that had eighty people in her, moll of whom pad-
died i the chiefs wore garments of dogs fkins, and were very much tataowed;
the men upon their hips, and the women on' their breafts, necks, and bellies. We
faw many plantations of the Koomarra, and fome of the Eaowte, or cloth trees.
At night, again, it was almoft calm, and we were, near the fliore. We defigned
to tack about, but were hurried, by an eddy-tide, upon the breakers, off a point
of land called, by us, Point Pococke, before we were aware of it, which threw us
into a panic, and occafioned great confuflon/ Not having room to anchor, we
hoifted out the pinnace to tow her off: we thought we hadfeen a whale, but it
proved to be a rock, and we ftfuck upon it twice. We got clear of it again, and
ftreamed the buoy, but luckily did not let go the anchor. Soon after we faw
feVeral fmall ¡(lands) which we named Cavalle Iflands. We paffed two points of
land which formed a bay, to which we gave the appellation of Doubtlefs Bay; and
the two points which formed it were called by. us Bay Point) 'and Knuckle Point.
_We were now got into a very long open bay, which, from the- appearance of the
country, we named Sandy Bay.
We beat to windward four days, and made but little way, having continual
breezes from the weft} .and, on the 19th, many canoes came off to us, of which
we bought a good quantity of fiih. The land hereabout looked very barren, and
tends away to the north.
On the icth, the wind was N. W. we beat to windward, and made but little
way. . The land in fight was very low, and very barren, being moftly fandy, having
here and there a few buihes, but fcarce a tree to be feen, yet it appeared to be
inhabited.
On the 13th, the N. W. wind ftill prevailing, we could do nothing but lie on
and off the land, without making any way. It blew very hard, and we had fome
fierce fqualls, attended with heavy ihowers of rain, which drove us back to where
we had been four days before.
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On the 14th, we were quite out of fight of land j the wind continued to blow
very ftrong; we had great fwells from the weft 5 and our fails being very tender,
many of them were much torn in the gale.
On the 17th, in the morning, we were near land again, which feemed to be the
fartheft north, the land tending away from this point, which we called the North
Cape to the South Weft. This land was pretty high, with a table top. We faw
no canoes, nor any inhabitants} but, in the evening, we faw fome fmoke on the
high land.
On the 20 th, the wind ftill continuing wefterljh we got no farther than the
Jaft bluff point. We had fome violent fqualls of wind, with heavy rains, thunder,
and lightening.
On the 21 ft, in the morning, the wind came about to the fouth } but, as we
were a confiderable diftance from ihore, we could only ft and to the weftward,
without being able to get near the land.
On the 24th, after having Seat about for three days, we difcovered land, which
we fuppofed was the iiland of the Three Kings, though we could not bring it to
appear any thing like the defcribed figure of that ifland in Dairymple’s Book, having
nothing of that broken appearance which that figure exhibits, forming one
large clump of land; rather flat at the top, with eleven fmall rocks lying in a row
from it. It being calm, Mr. Banks went out in the fmall boat} and we faw fome
birds fo much like our ifland geefe, that we could not have diftinguiihed the difference.
We caught feveral of > them, made them into a pye, and they 'tailed
excellently.
On the 27th, in the morning, it blew very hard from the eaft, all d\y, accompanied
with heavy ihowers of rain, and we brought the fliip to under a reef
main-fail.
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