74 COOE’s VOYAGE, 
were at anchor ; but probably there is frelh water in feveral 
places, as both the iflands and the main are inhabited. We 
few fmoke and fires upon the main ; and upon the iflands we 
faw people. At three in the afternoon, we paffed Cape Ma- 
nifold, from which the land trends N. N. W. The land of 
the Cape is high, rifing in hills direttly from the fea ; and 
may be known by three illands which lie off it, one of them 
near the Ihore, and the other two eight miles out at fea. One 
of thefe iflands is low and flat, and the other high and round. 
At fix o’clock in the evening we brought to, when the npr- 
thermoft part of the main in fight bore N. W. and feme iflands 
which lie off it ^ST. 3 1 W, Our foundings after twelve o’clock 
were from twenty to twenty -five fathom, and in the night 
from thirty to thirty-four. 
At day-break we made fail, Cape Manifold bearing S. by E. 
diftant eight leagues, and the iflands which I had fet the night- 
before were diftant four miles in the feme dirp&ion. The far- 
theft vifible point of the main bore N. 67 W. at the diftance 
of twenty-two miles ; but we could fee feveral iflands to the 
northward of this diredion. At nine o’clock in the forenoon, 
we were abreaft of the point which I called Cape Town- 
send. It lies in Jatitqde 25 : 15 ; longitude 209 : 43 : the 
land is high and levpl, and rather naked than woody. Seve- 
ral iflands lie to the northward of it, at the diftance of four or 
five miles out at fea ; three or four leagues to the S. E. the 
ihore forms a bay, in the bottom of which there appeared to 
h>e an inlet or harbour. To the weftward of the Cape the land 
trends S. W. i S. and there forms a very Jorge bay, which 
turns to the eaftward, and probably communicates with the in- 
let, and makes the land of the cape an ifland. As foon as we 
got round this cape, we hauled our wind to the weftward, in 
order to get within the iflands, which lie fcattered in the bay 
an great numbers, and extend out to fea as far as the eye could 
peach, even from the maft head : thefe iflands vary both in 
height and circuit from each other ; fo that, although they are 
very numerous, no two of them are alike. We had not flood 
Jong upon a wind before we came into Ihoal water, and were 
obliged to tack at once to avoid it. Having fent a boat ahead, 
I bore away W. by N. many fmall iflands, rocks and Ihoals, 
lying betweep us and the main, and many of - a larger extent 
without us : our foundings till near noon were from fourteen 
to feventeen fathom, when the boat made the figqal for meet- 
ing with flioal water : upon this we hauled clofe upon a wind 
to the eaftward, but fuddenly fell into three fathom and a 
quarter ; we immediately dropped an anchor, w'hich brought 
the Ihip up with all her fails Handing. When the feip was 
brought up we had four fathom, with a coarfe iandy bottom, 
sqid found a ftroqgtide felting to the N. W. by W. f; W. at 
