However, We All Concluded That It Would
Serve To Boil Our Oatmeal, For Burgoo, Whereby We Might Save The
Remains
Of our other water for drinking, till we should get more:
and accordingly the next day we brought aboard four
Hogsheads of it:
but while we were at work about the well we were sadly pestered with
the flies, which were more troublesome to us than the sun, though it
shone clear and strong upon us all the while very hot. All this
while we saw no more of the natives, but saw some of the smoke of
some of their fires at two or three miles distance.
The land hereabouts was much like the port of New Holland that I
formerly described; it is low, but seemingly barricaded with a long
chain of sand-hills to the sea, that lets nothing be seen of what is
farther within land. At high water the tides rising so high as they
do, the coast shows very low: but when it is low water it seems to
be of an indifferent height. At low water-mark the shore is all
rocky, so that then there is no landing with a boat; but at high
water a boat may come in over those rocks to the sandy bay, which
runs all along on this coast. The land by the sea for about five or
six hundred yards is a dry sandy soil, bearing only shrubs and
bushes of divers sorts. Some of these had them at this time of the
year, yellow flowers or blossoms, some blue, and some white; most of
them of a very fragrant smell.
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