The Mould Of The
Island Is Black, But Not Deep, It Being Very Rocky.
On the sides
and top of the island are many palmetto trees, whose heads we could
discern over all the other trees, but their bodies we could not see.
About one in the afternoon we weighed and stood to the eastward,
between the main and King William's Island, leaving the island on
our larboard side, and sounding till we were past the island, and
then we had no ground. Here we found the flood setting east-by-
north, and the ebb west-by-south; there were shoals and small
islands between us and the main, which caused the tide to set very
inconstantly, and make many whirlings in the water; yet we did not
find the tide to set strong any way, nor the water to rise much.
On the 9th, being to the eastward of King William's Island, we plied
all day between the main and other islands, having easterly winds
and fair weather till seven the next morning; then we had very hard
rain till eight, and saw many shoals of fish. We lay becalmed off a
pretty deep bay on New Guinea, about twelve or fourteen leagues
wide, and seven or eight leagues deep, having low land near its
bottom, but high land without. The easternmost part of New Guinea
seen bore east-by-south, distant twelve leagues; Cape Mabo west-
south-west half-south, distant seven leagues.
At one in the afternoon it began to rain, and continued till six in
the evening, so that, having but little wind and most calms, we lay
still off the forementioned bay, having King William's Island still
in sight, though distant by judgment fifteen or sixteen leagues
west.
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