A V O Y A G E T O
Guinea : yét, I likewife think tljat a lhip coming from the
fouthward, will find a fair, fixait in the. latitude of 10» S> ; I ^
much wilhed. to .have afcertained- this .point ; but in our
diftrefsful fituation* any increafe of fatigue, or lofs of
time, might have . beep attended with . the mo$ fatal
conferences. 1 therefore determined to pafs on without
dglay. .
« ; As.an addition to .dwjdinner o f bread and water, I ferved
to each perfon fix oyfljers.
At two o’clock, in the afternoon, a.s we were fleering to
the S W, towards the wefternmoft part of the land in fight,
we fell in with fome large fand-banks that run off .from
the coaft: .1 therefore called this Shoal Capo. j Vfe .were
obliged to fleer to the northward :again, till wg got] round
the Ihoals, when I .dire&ed the-courfe to .the W..
: At four b’clockinthe wefternmoft/ o f theftflands-^ethe
northward, bore N four leagues ; 'Wednefftay ifland>E by h f
five rkagnes; and ShoRl Gapé S E? b.y-fE two leagues.-,. A
final! iflaud was feen bearihg.lW» :at which >ye arrived
before jdark»- andsfiaund.thatyit was.only ^WOfe iWhare
boobies rcfoit* for which reafon I called, it hoofoy; Ifland.;
Here terminated, the rocks_.and' fftoals., o f tjag; N part o f
New Holland, for»: except Booby
to the weftward o f S, after three o’clock this? after^
noon..
I find thatBooby Ifland was feen byrCaptain Cook, tand^
by ;a remarkable coincidence of ideas» received from/hina
the fame name ; but 1 cannot with certainty reconcile the
fituation .of fome parts o f the coaft that I Jhave feen,, to
his furvey. ’ J^afcribe this to the various forms in| whjch
lanil appears* when feen from the different heights of a fffip j
and