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morning, at daybreak, we found ourselves several 

 leagues to windward of the Isle of Pines, and bore 

 away large, round the S.E., and south sides. The 

 coast from the S.E., round by the south to the west, 

 was strewed with sand-banks, breakers, and small low 

 isles, most of which were covered with the same lofty 

 trees that ornamented the borders of the greater one. 

 We continued to range the outside of these small isles 

 and breakers, at three-fourths of a league distance, 

 and as we passed, one raised another ; so that they 

 seemed to form a chain extending to the isles which 

 lie off the Foreland. At noon we observed, in 

 latitude 22° 44' 36" South, the Isle of Pines, extending 

 from N. by E. ^ E. to E. by N., and Cape Coronation 

 N. 32° 30' West, distant seventeen leagues. In the 

 afternoon, with a fine gale at E., we steered N.W. 

 by W. along the outside of the shoals, with a view of 

 falling in with the land a little to S.W. of the Fore- 

 land. At two o'clock P. M. two low islets were seen 

 bearing W. by S., and as they were connected by 

 breakers, which seemed to join those on our starboard, 

 this discovery made it necessary to haul off S. W. in 

 order to get clear of them all. At three, more 

 breakers appeared, extending from the low isles to- 

 wards the S. E. We now hauled out close to the 

 wind ; and, in an hour and an half, were almost on 

 board the breakers, and obliged to tack. From the 

 mast-head, they were seen to extend as far as E.S.E., 

 and the smoothness of the sea made it probable that 

 they extended to the north of east, and that we were 

 in a manner surrounded by them. At this time the 

 hill on the Isle of Pines bore N. 7H° East, the 

 Foreland N. i W., and the most advanced point of 

 land on the S.W. coast bore N . W., distant fifteen or 

 sixteen leagues. This direction of the S.W. coast, 

 which was rather within the parallel of the N.E., 

 assured us that this land extended no farther to the 

 S.W. After making a short trip to N.N.E., we stood 

 again to the south, in expectation of having a better 



