450 STRAIT LE MAIRE—COOD SUCCESS BAY. 1830. 
of getting fish is to give bits of broken glass or buttons to the 
natives, who catch them in the kelp, by a baited line, without 
a hook, enticing the fish to the top of the water and then 
seizing them with the hand, or, if the fish has swallowed the 
bait, jerking it out of the water before it can disengage itself ; 
as I mentioned before. 
** At daylight (24th), being off Cape Good Success, we bore 
up, and ran towards the Strait of Le Maire, with a fresh gale 
at south, and thick snow squalls. The strait appeared clear of all 
obstacles, no rocks, nor even kelp being visible. The shore 
from Cape Success to the north head of Success Bay is high 
and bold, with water for a ship as near to it as she could 
desire, or ought to go. We hauled our wind during a severe 
snow squall, lest we should run beyond the harbour, and 
afterwards bearing up, ran into Good Success Bay, and anchor- 
ed under the lee of its south head as a temporary berth. As 
soon as the ship was secure, I went to look for the best anchor- 
age; and when it moderated, we weighed and shifted to a 
position where I supposed the ship secure when moored in 
smooth water, with sixty fathoms on our seaward anchor, and 
fifty on the other, the anchors lying respectively in eight and 
seven fathoms, over a clear, sandy bottom. The gale continued 
during the day, and towards night increased, drawing more 
to the eastward, and sending a swell into the bay. The wind 
was very cold, and the snow and hail froze fast, as they 
lodged upon any exposed part of the ship. Between eight 
and nine it blew heayily ; afterwards it became much more 
moderate ; and at midnight there was only a fresh wind from 
E.S.E. A long swell then began to set into the bay from the 
same quarter; but the ship rode so easily, and the night 
seemed to be improving so fast, with the glass rising steadily, 
that I went to bed without an anxious thought respecting her 
safety : however, I was hardly asleep when I was told that the 
small bower, our seaward cable, had parted. I ran instantly 
upon deck, when finding the night fine, and no increase of swell, 
I thought at first it-was a mistake; but was quickly set right 
by the ship turning her broadside to the swell, and dropping 
