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1778. leak, before we encountered another gale. Thefe reafons 
« induced me to fteer for the inlet, which we had no fooner 
reached, than the weather became fo foggy, that we could 
not fee a mile before us, and it became neceffary to fecure: 
the fhips in fome place, to wait for a clearer fky. With this 
view, I hauled clofe under Gape Hinchingbroke, and an¬ 
chored before a fmall cove, a little within the Cape, in eight 
fathoms water, a clayey bottom, and about a quarter of a 
mile from the fhore. 
The boats were then hoifted out, fome to found, and 
others to fifh. The feine was drawn in the cove; but 
without fuccefs, for it was torn. At fome fhort intervals, 
the fog cleared away, and gave us a light of the lands 
around us. The Cape bore South by Weft half Weft, one 
league diftant; the Weft point of the inlet South Weft by 
Weft, diftant fiye leagues; and the land on that lide extend¬ 
ed as far as Weft by North. Between this point and North 
Weft by Weft, we could fee no land; and what was in the 
laft direction feemed to be at a great diftance. The Wef- 
ternmoft point we had in light on the North fhore, bore 
North North Weft half Weft, two leagues diftant. Between 
this point, and the fhore under which we were at anchor, 
is a bay about three leagues deep; on the South Eaft lide 
of which there are two or three coves, fuch as that before 
which we had anchored; and in the middle fome rocky 
illands. 
To thefe illands Mr. Gore was fent in a boat, in hopes 
of Ihooting fome eatable birds. But he had hardly got 
to them, before about twenty natives made their appear¬ 
ance in two large canoes; on which he thought proper to 
return to the fhips, and they followed him. They would 
not venture along-lide, but kept at fome diftance, hollowing 
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