Plenty of Pish caught. 09 
4 v five miles up the country, reported that he had feen the 
footfteps of men, arid tracked^ animals of three or four different 
forts, but had not been fortunate enough to fee either man or 
bead. 
At two o’clock in the morning of the 29th, I obferved, in 
conjunction with Mr. Green, an emerfion of Jupiter’s firff fa- 
teliite ; the time here was 2 h i8 m 53 s ,' which gave the longi- 
tude of this place 214 11 42™ 30 3 W. : its- latitude is 15 : 26 S. 
At break of day, I fent the boat out again^vith the feine, 
and in the afternoon, it returned with as muWfifh as enabled 
me to give every man a pound and an half. One of my mid- 
fhipmen, an American, who was this day abroad with his 
gun, reported that he had feen a wolf, exaftly like thofe 
which he had been ufed to fee in his own-country, and that he 
had fhot at it, but did not kill it. 
The next morning, encouraged by the fuccefs of the day- 
before, I fent the boat again to haul the feine, and another 
party to gather greens : I fent alfo fome of the young gentle- 
men to take a plan of the harbour, and went m.yfelr upon a 
hill, which lies over the fout’n point, to take a view of the 
fea. At this time it was low water, and I faw, with great 
concern innumerable tahct banks and fri als lying ail along the 
Coaff in every d redd on. Tire innermoli lay about three or 
four miies from the lhor^, the outermod extended as far as I 
cou d lee with my glafs, and many of them did but jud rife 
above water There was fome appearance of a paffage to the 
northward, and I hud no hope of getting clear but in that di- 
rection, for as the wind blows condantly from the S. E. it 
would have been difficult if not impoffibie, to return back to 
the fouthvvard. 
Mr. Gore reported, that he had 'this day feen two animals 
like dogs, of a draw colour, that they ran like a hare, and 
were about the fame fize. In the afternoon the people returned 
from hauling the feine, with dill better fucceis than before, 
for I wa now able to didribute two pounds and an half to 
each man ; the greens that had been gathered I ordered to be 
boiled among the peas, and they made an excellent mefs, 
which, with two copious fupplies of hill, afforded us unfpeak- 
able refreihment. 
The next day, July the iff, being Sunday, every body had 
liberty to go aihore, except one from each mefs, who were 
again fent out with the feine. The- feine was again equally 
fuccefsful, and the people who went up the country gave an 
account of having feen feveral animals, though none of them 
were to be caught. They faw a fire alfo about a mile up the 
river, and Mr. Gore, the Second Lieutenant, picked up- the' 
hulk of a cocoa nut, which had been caff upon the beach, and 
was full of barnacles : this probably might come from fome 
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