A VOYAGE TO 
1779. them extremity of the iiland; the whole coaft between. 
, M ^ r _ ch '_, them forming an extenlive bay, called Toe-yah-yah, which 
is bounded to the North by two very confpicuous hills. 
Toward the bottom of this hay there is foul, corally ground, 
extending upward of a mile from the fhore, without which 
the foundings are regular, with good anchorage, in twenty 
fathoms. The country, as far as the eye could reach, 
feemed fruitful and well inhabited, the foil being in ap¬ 
pearance of the fame kind with the diftrict of Kaoo ; but 
no frefh water is to be got here. 
I have hitherto confined myfelf to the coafts of this ifland, 
and the adjacent country, which is all that I had an oppor¬ 
tunity of being acquainted with from my own ohfervation. 
The only account I can give of the interior parts, is from 
the information I obtained from a party, who fet out, on 
the afternoon of the 26th of January, on an expedition up 
the country, with an intention of penetrating as far as they 
could ; and principally of reaching, if poflible, the fnowy 
mountains. 
Having procured two natives to ferve them as guides, 
they left the village about four o’clock in the afternoon, 
directing their courfe a little to the Southward of the Eaft. 
To the difiance of three or four miles from the bay, they 
found the country as before defcribed; the hills afterward 
rofe with a more hidden afcent, which brought them to the 
extenlive plantations, that terminate the view of the coun¬ 
try, a,s feen from the fhips. 
Thefe plantations confift of the * tarrow or eddy root, 
and the fweet potatoe, with plants of the cloth-tree, neatly 
fet 
* Both the fweet potatoes, and the tarrow, are here planted four feet from each other: 
the former was earthed up almoft to the top of the ftalk, with jibout half a bufhel of 
light 
