About Two A Clock
We Got To Bulls Island, Which Is About Thirty Miles Long,
And Hath A Great Number Of Both Cattel And Hogs Upon It;
The Cattel Being Very Wild, And The Hogs Very Lean.
These two last Islands
belong to one Colonel Cary, an Inhabitant of South Carolina.
Although it were Winter, yet we found such Swarms of Musketoes,
and other troblesome Insects, that we got but little Rest that Night.
{Tuesday.}
The next Day we intended for a small Island on the other Side of Sewee-Bay,
which joining to these Islands, Shipping might come to victual or careen;
but there being such a Burden of those Flies, that few or none
cares to settle there; so the Stock thereon are run wild.
We were gotten about half Way to Racoon-Island, when there sprung up
a tart Gale at N.W. which put us in some Danger of being cast away,
the Bay being rough, and there running great Seas between the two Islands,
which are better than four Leagues asunder, a strong Current of a Tide
setting in and out, which made us turn Tail to it, and got our Canoe
right before the Wind, and came safe into a Creek that is joining to
the North End of Bulls Island. We sent our Indians to hunt,
who brought us two Deers, which were very poor, and their Maws
full of large Grubs.
{Wednesday.}
On the Morrow we went and visited the Eastermost Side of this Island,
it joining to the Ocean, having very fair sandy Beeches,
pav'd with innumerable Sorts of curious pretty Shells, very pleasant
to the Eye.
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