Bustard Bat, 71 
The people who were left on board the^fhip faid, that while 
we were in the woods about twenty of the natives came down 
to the beach, abreall of her, and having looked at her feme- 
tint *, went away ; but we, that were afhore, though we faw 
fmoke in many places, faw no people : the fmoke was at 
places too aidant for us to get to them by land, except one, 
to which we repaired : we found ten fmall fires Hill burning 
within a few paces of each other ; but the people were gone : 
we faw near them feveral veffels of bark, which we fuppofed 
to have contained water, and fome Ihelis and iifh-bones, the 
remains of a recent meal. We faw alio, lying upon the ground, 
feveral pieces of foft bark, about the length and breadth of a 
man, which we imagined might be their beds; and, on the 
windward fide of the fires, a fmall ihade, about a foot and an 
half high, of the fame fubllance. The whole was in a thicket 
of dole trees, which afforded good fhelter from the wind. The 
place leerned to be much trodden, and as we faw no houfe, 
nor any remains of a houfe, we were inclined to believe that as 
thefe people had no clothes, they had no dwelling ; but fpent 
their nights among the other commoners of Nature, in the 
open air : and Tupia himfelf, with an air of fuperiority and 
■compaflion, (hook his head, and faid that they were Taata 
Enos , * poor wretches.’ I meafured the perpendicular height 
of the lafb tide, and found it to be 8 feet above low-water 
mark, and from the time of low water this day, I found that 
it mull be high water at the full and change of the moon at 
eight o’clock. 
At four o’clock in the morning we weighed, and with a 
gentle breeze at fouth made fail out of the bay. In Handing 
out, our foundings were from five to fifteen fathom ; and at 
day-light, when we were in die greatefl depth, and abreall of 
the north head of the bay, we difeovered breakers firetching 
out from it N. N, E. between two and three miles, with a 
rock at the outermoft point of them, jufi above water. While 
we were piaffing thefe rocks, at the difiance of about half a 
mile, we had from fifteen to twenty fathom, and as foon as 
we had palled them, we hauled along fhore W. N. W-. for 
the fartheft land we had in fight. At noon, our latitude by 
obfervation was 25:52s.; the north part of Bullard Bay bore 
S. 62 E. difiant ten miles ; and the northermofi land in fight 
N. 60 W. ; the longitude was 208:37, and. our diftance 
from the neareft fhore fix miles, with fourteen fathom water. 
Till five in the afternoon it was calm, but afterwards we 
fleered before the wind N. W. as the land lay, till ten at 
night, and then brought to, having had all along 14 and 15 
fathom. At five in the morning we made fail : and at day-light 
the northermofi point of the main bore N. 70 W. Soon af- 
ter we faw more land, making like i (lands, and bearing N. W. 
