Among These Trees The Surface Is Covered With Pretty Good Grass,
Especially In The Beginning Of The Year, But There Are No Land Animals
To Feed Upon It, The Great Number Of Goats That Used To Be Found Here
Formerly Being All Destroyed.
Is has, however, a great number of the
birds named Boobies and Man-of-war birds.
Some say that this island got
the name Isola de Plata from the Spaniards, from the circumstance of
Sir Francis Drake having carried to this place their ship the Cacafoga,
richly laden with silver, which they name Plata.
The anchorage is on the east side, about the middle of the island, close
to the shore, within two cables length of the sandy bay, in eighteen or
twenty fathoms, fast ooze, and smooth water, the S.E. point of the
island keeping off the force of the south wind which usually blows here.
In this sandy bay there is good landing, and indeed it is the only place
which leads into the island. A small shoal runs out about a quarter of a
mile from the east point of the island, on which shoal there is a great
rippling of the sea when the tide flows. The tide here has a strong
current, setting to the south with the flood, and to the north when it
ebbs. At this east point also there are three small high rocks, about a
cable's length from the shore; and three much larger rocks at the N.E.
point.
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