At Night The Yawl
Came Aboard And Brought A Wooden Fish-Spear, Very Ingeniously Made,
The Matter Of It Was A Small Cane; They Found It By A Small
Barbecue, Where They Also Saw A Shattered Canoe.
The next morning I sent the boatswain ashore fishing, and at one
haul he caught three hundred and fifty-two mackerel, and about
twenty other fishes, which I caused to be equally divided among all
my company.
I sent also the gunner and chief mate to search about
if they could find convenient anchoring near a watering-place; by
night they brought word that they had found a fine stream of good
water, where the boat could come close to, and it was very easy to
be filled, and that the ship might anchor as near to it as I
pleased, so I went thither. The next morning, therefore, we
anchored in twenty-five fathom water, soft oozy ground, about a mile
from the river; we got on board three tuns of water that night, and
caught two or three pike-fish, in shape much like a parracota, but
with a longer snout, something resembling a garr, yet not so long.
The next day I sent the boat again for water, and before night all
my casks were full.
Having filled here about fifteen tuns of water, seeing we could
catch but little fish, and had no other refreshments, I intended to
sail next day, but finding that we wanted wood, I sent to cut some,
and going ashore to hasten it, at some distance from the place where
our men were, I found a small cove, where I saw two barbecues, which
appeared not to be above two months' standing; the spars were cut
with some sharp instrument, so that, if done by the natives, it
seems that they have iron.
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