150 
An . 1699 
New Tajj'age to the South^Sea. 
right in towards the Shore ( which lies 
here S. S. W. and N. N. E.) and the Ebb 
runs N. W. by N. When the Tides 
flackned we Fifli’d with Hook and Line, 
as we had already done in feveral Places on 
this Coaft; on which in this Voyage hi- 
therto, we had found but little Tides : but 
by the Heighth, and Strength, andCourfe 
of them hereabouts, it fliould feem that if 
there be fuch a Paflage or Streight going 
through Eaftward to the Great South Sea^ 
as I faid one might fufpeft, one would ex- 
peQ: to find the Mouth of it fomewhere 
between this Place and Rofemary Ifland, 
which was the part of HolUnk I come 
laft from. 
Next Morning my Men came aboard 
and brought a Rundlet of brackifh Water 
which they got out of another Well that 
they dug in a Place a mile off, and about 
half as far from the Shore ; but this Water 
was not fit to drink. However wd all 
concluded that it would ferve to boil our 
Oatmeal, for Burgoo, wherebj we might 
fave the Remains of our other Water for 
drinking, till we fliould get more ; and ac- 
cordingly the next day we brought aboard 
4 Hogfheads of it : but while we were at 
work about the Well we were f^dly peft- 
er’d with the Flies, which weriS more 
troublefome to us than the Sun, tho’ it 
ihonc dear and Ifrong upon us all the while, 
very 
