Point Dromedary. 4y 
the lulls and ridges is gentle, and the fummits are not high. 
We continued to fail along the fhore to die northward, with 
a foutherly wind, and in the afternoon we faw fraoke in fe- 
veral places, by which we knew the country to be^nhabited. 
At fix in the evening we fhortened fail, and founded : w'e found 
forty-four fathom water, w r ith a clear fandy bottom, and flood 
on under an eafy fail till twelve, when we brought to for the 
night, and had ninety fathom water. 
At four in the morning we made fail again, at die dis- 
tance of about five leagues from the land, and at fix, we were 
abreafl of a high mountain, lying near the fhore, which, on 
account of its figure, I called Mount Dromedary: under 
this mountain the fhore forms a point, to which I gave the 
nameof Point Dromedary, and over it there is a peaked 
•hillock. At this time, being in latitude 36 •: J.2.S, longitude 
209 : 55 W. we found the variation -to be 10 : 42 E. 
Between ten and eleven, Mr. Green and I took feveral ob- 
fervations of the fun and moon, the mean, reful t of which gave 
209 : 17 longitude W. B-y an obfervation made the day be- 
fore, our longitude was 210 : .9 W. from jvhich, 20 being fub- 
tradled, there remains 209 : 4.9, the longitude of the fhip this 
day at noon, the mean of which, with this day’s obfervation, 
gives 209 : 35, by which I. fix the longitude of this coaft. 
At noon, our latitude was 35 : 49 S. Cape Dromedary bore 
S. 30 W. at the di fiance of twelve leagues, and an open bay, 
in which' were three or four fmall ifiands, bore N. W. by W. 
at the diftance of five or fix leagues. This bay feemed to af- 
ford but little fhelter from the fea winds, and yet it is the. only 
place where there appeared a probability of finding anchorage 
upon the whole coaft. .We continued to fleer along the fhore 
N. by E. and N. N, E. at the diftance of about three leagues, 
and faw fmoke in many places near the beach. At five in the 
evening, we were abreaft of a point of land which rofe in a 
perpendicular cliff, and which, for .that reafor, I called Poi nt 
Upright. Our latitude wns 35 2 35 S. when this Point 
bore from us due weft, diftant about two leagues : in this fi- 
tuation, we had about thirty-one fathom water, with a fandy 
bottom. At fix in the evening, the wind falling, we hauled 
off £, N. E. and at this time the northermoll land in fight 
Lore N. by E. ~ E. At midnight, being in feventy fathom 
water, we brought to till four in the morning, when we made 
fail in for the land ; but at day break, found our fituation 
nearly the fame as it had been at five in the evening before, 
by which it was apparent that we had been driven about three 
leagues to the fouthward, by a tide or current during the night. 
After this we fleered along the fhore N. N. E. with a gentle 
breeze at S. W. and were fo near the land as to diftinguifh fe- 
deral of the native* upon the beach, who appealed to be of 1 
black. 
