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1778. was now at South Eaft, and we were threatened with a fo? 



Kiay. " 



and a ftorm ; and I wanted to get into fome place to flop the 

 leak, before we encountered another gale. Thefe rcafons 

 induced me to fleer for the inlet, which we had no fooner 

 reached, than the weather became fo foggy, that we "could 

 not fee a mile before us, and it became necefTary to fecure 

 thefhips in fome place, to wait for a clearer fky. With this 

 view, I hauled clofe under Cape Hinchingbroke, and an- 

 chored before a fmall cove, a little within the Cape, in eight 

 fathoms water, a clayey bottom, and about a quarter of a 

 mile from the Ihore. 



The boats were then hoifted out, fome to found, and others 

 to fifli. The feine was drawn in the cove ; but without fuc- 

 cefs, for it was torn. At fome fliort intervals, the fog 

 cleared away, and gave us a fight of the lands around us. 

 The Cape bore South by V/ell half Weft, one league diftant j 

 the Weft point of the inlet South Weft by Weft, diftant five 

 leagues ; and the land on that fide extended as far as Weil 

 by North. Between this point and North Weft by Weft, we 

 could fee no land; and what was in the laft direction fcemed 

 to be at a great diftance. The Wefternmoft point we had in 

 fight on the North fliore, bore North North Weft half Weft, 

 two leagues diftant. Between this point, and the fliore 

 under which we were at anchor, is a bay about three leagues 

 deep ; on the South Eaft fide of which there are two or three 

 coves, fuch as that before which we had anchored ; and in 

 the middle fome rocky iflands. 



To thefe iflands Mr. Gore was fent in a boat, in hopes 

 of fhooting fome eatable birds. But he had hardly got 

 to them, before about twenty natives made their appear- 

 ance in two large canoes ; on which he thought proper 



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