TOGO ISLAND HAKE BAY, 519 



head, bearing 275"^, until Tinker island is well open eastward of Red 

 islet, bearing 204°, to clear the rock off Red islet, then steer to pass 

 northward of Duck island, and as above directed. 



Fogo island, about 2 miles eastward of Change island, is 14 miles 

 in greatest length in an easterly and westerly direction, and 8^ miles 

 in breadth.' Its coasts are rocky and deeply indented, affording, 

 however, but indifferent harbors, except for small vessels and boats, 

 and it is surrounded by numerous rocks, islets, and shoals. 



Rogers point is the south Avestern end of the western coast of Fogo 

 island, and bearing 255°, distant Ij'^y miles from the point, is Woody 

 island, 132 feet high, with some rocks I mile southwestward from it. 

 Woody island is separated by a narrow channel from the southeast- 

 ern end of Change island. 



Hare island lies in the channel between Change and Fogo islands 

 at 1^ miles northward of Woody island ; a patch of rocks lies nearly 

 midway between it and Change island, and rocks and foul ground 

 extend nearly 1,200 yards southward from the island. 



Watch island, 1,200 yards southeastward of the southern part of 

 Hare island, is small, with shoals extending about 800 yards north- 

 ward and southward of it. There is only a very narrow channel 

 between Hare and Watch islands. 



Watch rock, which breaks in a moderate sea, bears 322°, distant 

 1^ miles from Rogers point, and in mid-channel between Watch and 

 Fogo islands. Xoggin hill, on. the mainland, open eastward of 

 Indian lookout, bearing 175°, leads eastward; and open westw^ard, 

 bearing 171°, leads westward of it. 



Island Harbor head, on the west coast of Fogo island at 2| miles 

 northward of Rogers point, is a small but remarkable bluff, 101 feet 

 high ; there is an excellent boat harbor on its eastern side. 



Hare bay. — Hare Bay head, northward, 3^ miles from Island Har- 

 bor head and south-southwestwarcl, 2 miles from Brimstone head. 

 is 283 feet high ; between Hare Bay head and Brimstone head is Hare 

 bay, with Leveret islands, one of which is dome-shaped, on the 

 southwestern side of its entrance; a rock, with 9 feet water over it, 

 lies northward, distant 400 yards from these islands, leaving a channel 

 500 yards wide into the harbor. 



Change lookout on Change island, open northwestward of Hare 

 Bay head, bearing 224°, leads northwestward, and Burnt bluff, on 

 the southwestern side of the bay, well open eastward of the islands, 

 bearing about 159"^, leads northeastward of the rock. 



The bay extends 2 miles to the southeastward and affords good 

 anchorage in 4 to 12 fathoms water, mud bottom ; the southwestern 

 shore is rock}^, but the northeastern is clear and steep-to. 



