64 VOYAGE IN SEARCii 



jufl produced a current, which was againft uso 

 The tide flilling more and more, we were com- 

 pelled to wait till half pad fix for the flood, to 

 bring our fliip afloat. The Efpcrance had 

 worked herfelf into the fand deeper than us ; 

 for flic could not gTt off till about eight o'clock. 



The boat that had been fent five days before 

 returned, after having difcovercd feveral very 

 deep bights, which form excellent anchorages: 

 {\^c had met with no river. It is remarkable,, 

 that all the rivers which we had feen at Cape 

 Diemen are very fmall, which announced an 

 interfected country. 



The boat was loaded with black fvvans, which, 

 fuffering themfelves to be very clofely ap- 

 proached, had been foot. It had been found no 

 eafy matter to catch thofe vhich had been only 

 wounded; for as they ftill fwam with great 

 fwiftncfs, our people, to overtake them, had 

 been obliged to row with all their ihength. 



During the whole night of the 15th, Vvcfaw 

 feveral hrcs, which the inhabitants had kindled 

 on the fea-fhore to the fouth fouth-eali, at the 

 diflance of three kilometers from the place 

 where we were lyinL'". 



We were in hopes that a fair wind vould 

 have permitted us to fail again in the courfe of 

 the morning ; but it was contrary to us, and the 

 Admiial determined that we fliould remain at: 



anchor 



