Upon Returning To My Men I Saw That Though They Had Dug Eight Or
Nine Feet Deep, Yet Found No Water.
So I returned aboard that
evening, and the next day, being September 1st, I sent my boatswain
ashore to
Dig deeper, and sent the seine within him to catch fish.
While I stayed aboard I observed the flowing of the tide, which runs
very swift here, so that our nun-buoy would not bear above the water
to be seen. It flows here (as on that part of New Holland I
described formerly) about five fathom; and here the flood runs
south-east by south till the last quarter; then it sets right in
towards the shore (which lies here south-south-west and north north-
east) and the ebb runs north-west by north. When the tides
slackened we fished with hook and line, as we had already done in
several places on this coast; on which in this voyage hitherto we
had found but little tides; but by the height, and strength, and
course of them hereabouts, it should seem that if there be such a
passage or strait going through eastward to the great South Sea, as
I said one might suspect, one would expect to find the mouth of it
somewhere between this place and Rosemary Island, which was the part
of New Holland I came last from.
Next morning my men came aboard and brought a runlet of brackish
water which they had got out of another well that they dug in a
place a mile off, and about half as far from the shore; but this
water was not fit to drink.
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