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of the wind we could sail no higher thau east-north-east a 

 trifle east. In the first watch [8-12 p.m.] we had one, and 

 in the dog-watch [second watch, 12-4 a.m.] another, sounding 

 in 60 fathoms : fine grey sand. In the second glass of the 

 morning w^atch [4-8 a.m., say 5 o'clock] we got a breeze 

 from the south-east, and we then tacked again for the 

 shore. 



17th. — In the morning at sunrise we were about a mile 

 from the land. We saw in different places smoke rising 

 where fire had been made by the inhabitants. The wind, 

 south from the land, went round to the eastward. i\t noon 

 we worked out the latitude 40° 32', longitude 190° 47'. We 

 held a course north-east by east, and sailed twelve miles. In 

 the afternoon, wind west, course east by south along a low 

 sand-hill shore, with fine, dry weather. Soundings, 30 

 fathoms, black sand ; so that by night we might easily sound 

 along the ground to this shore. So we ran towards this sand- 

 point up to 17 fathoms, where, because of- the calm, we 

 anchored at sundown. We then had the northernmost of the 

 dry sand point west by north from us, also high laud stretch- 

 ing east by south, and the point of the reef south-east from us. 

 Within this narrow point of sand we saw a large, open bay, 

 quite four to three miles wide. East of this narrow sand- 

 point there is a sand-bank which stretches quite a mile east- 

 south-east, 6ft., 7ft., and 8ft. to 9ft. deep. In the evening, 

 9° north-easterly [variation] . 



18th. — In the morning weighed anchor, with calm weather. 

 At noon, latitude worked out 40° 49', longitude 191° 41'. 

 Course held east-south-east, and sailed eleven miles. In the 

 morning, before weighing anchor, vv'e had resolved with the 

 officers of the Zeehaen that we should endeavour to land 

 and find a convenient harbour, and when near shore should 

 send the shallop in advance, as is further amplified in the 

 resolution of this date. In the afternoon our shipmaster, Ide 

 Tiercxsz, and pilot-major, Francoys Jacobsz, with the shallop, 

 besides the Zeehaen's boat with the supercargo Gilsemans 

 and one of their second mates, went on before to seek for an 

 anchorage and watering-place. At sunset, it being calm, we 

 anchored in 15 fathoms, good holding-ground. In the evening, 

 about an hour after sundown, we saw several lights on the 

 land, and four boats along the shore, of which two came to- 

 wards us, and the other two — our own — returned on board. 

 They reported that they had found not less than 13 fathoms 

 water, and that tliey had been about half a mile from the 

 shore at the setting of tiie sun (which sank behind the high 

 land). About one glass after they had returned on board 

 the people in the two prows began to call to us, and that with 

 a coarse, rough voice, but . we could not understand in the 



