128 A VOYAGE TO [South Coast. 
Febmary indeed lt nas usua Uy been found in this country, that the borders of 
Tuesday 16. shallow bays and lagoons, and at the entrances of rivers, are by far 
the most numerously peopled. These natives were black and naked, 
differing in nothing that we could perceive from those of King 
George's Sound before described. 
In the evening, the wind veered to the southward ; and at 
sunset we passed Point Sir Isaac at the distance of half a mile. Our 
course was then directed to the south-west, towards two high pieces 
of land, which appeared in the offing, and obtained the name of 
Greenly' s Isles. The ship was hove to at midnight ; but on seeing the 
Wednes. 17. islands to leeward at two in the morning, we filled ; and at three, 
tacked towards the main land. At daylight, a rocky point which 
lies ten or eleven miles to the south-south- west of Point Sir Isaac, 
and is called Point Whidbey, was distant two miles ; and the peak 
upon the southernmost of Greenly 's Isles bore S. 63° W., four or 
five leagues. At S. i8 3 E., seven or eight miles from Point Whidbey, 
lies an island one mile in length, the middlemost and largest of seven, 
which I named Whidbey's Isles, after my worthy friend the former 
master-attendant at Sheerness. The basis of these isles appeared to 
be granitic, but the more elevated are covered with a thick crust of 
calcareous rock ; and in the middlemost, this upper stratum is per- 
forated, admitting the light through the island. 
The two easternmost of Whidbey's Isles are close to a low pro- 
jection of the main land, which was named Point Avoid: It lies eleven 
or twelve miles to the east-south-east of Point Whidbey ; and the 
shore between them forms so deep a bight, that the peninsula between 
it and Coffin's Bay seems to be there not more than two or three miles 
broad. At the head of this bight is a low, rocky island, and there are 
rocks and breakers on each side of the entrance ; on which account 
and from its being exposed to the dangerous southern winds, I named 
it Avoid Bay. 
Having the wind at south-east-by-south, we beat up all the 
morning off the entrance of this bay, taking bearings of the different 
