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Sharp says, " we bore up for a harbour, and steered in northward 

 about five leagues. On the north side there are plenty of harbours." 

 " At eleven in the forenoon they came to an anchor in a harbour in 

 forty-five fathoms, within a stone's cast of the shore, where the ship 

 was land-locked and in smooth water. As the ship went in, one of 

 the crew, named Henry Shergall, fell overboard as he was going into 

 the spritsail top, and was drowned ; on which account this was named 

 Shergall's Harbour." 



The bottom was rocky where the ship had anchored ; a boat was 

 therefore sent to look for better anchorage. They did not, however, 

 shift their berth that day ; and during the night, strong flurries of 

 wind from the hills, joined with the sharpness of the rocks at the 

 bottom, cut their cable in two, and they were obliged to set sail. 

 They ran about a mile to another bay, where they let go another 

 anchor, and moored the ship with a fastening to a tree on shore. 



They shot geese, and other wild-fowl. On the shores they found 

 large muscles, cockles like those in England, and limpets : here were 

 also penguins,* which were shy, and not taken wdthout pursuit ; "they 

 paddled on the water with their wings very fast, but their bodies 

 were too heavy to be carried by the said wings." The first part of 

 the time they lay in this harbour, they had almost continual rain. 



On the night of the 1 5th, in a high north wind, the tree to which 

 their cable was fastened gave way, and came up by the root, in con- 

 sequence of which, the stern of the ship took the ground and damaged 

 the rudder. They secured the ship afresh by fastening the cable to 

 other trees ; but were obliged to unhang the rudder to repair. 



The 18th was a day of clear weather. The latitude was observed 

 50° 40' S. The difference of the rise and fall of the tide was seven 

 feet perpendicular : the time of high- water is not noted. The arm 

 of the sea, or gulf, in which they were, they named the English Gulf ; 

 and the land forming the harbour, the Duke of York's Island ; " more 

 by guess than any thing else ; for whether it were an island or con- 

 tinent was not discovered." 



Ringrose says, " I am persuaded that the place where we now are, 

 is not so great an island as some hydrographers do lay it down, but 

 rather an archipelago of smaller islands. Our captain gave to them 

 the name of the Duke of York's Islands. Our boat which went east- 

 W'ard found several good bays and harbours, with deep water close to 

 the shore ; but there lay in them several sunken rocks, as there did 

 * Steamer ducks. Penguins swim like fish.' — R, F. 



