As I Passed By The
South-East Point I Sounded Several Times Within A Mile Of The Sandy
Bays, But Had No Ground.
About three leagues to the northward of
the south-east point we opened a large, deep bay, secured from west-
north-west and south-west winds.
There were two other islands that
lay to the north-east of it, which secured the bay from north-east
winds; one was but small, yet woody; the other was a league long,
inhabited, and full of cocoa-nut trees. I endeavoured to get into
this bay, but there came such flaws off from the high land over it
that I could not. Besides, we had many hard squalls, which deterred
me from it; and, night coming on, I would not run any hazard, but
bore away to the small inhabited island, to see if we could get
anchorage on the east side of it. When we came there we found the
island so narrow, that there could be no shelter; therefore I tacked
and stood towards the greater island again; and being more than
midway between both, I lay by, designing to endeavour for anchorage
next morning. Between seven and eight at night we spied a canoe
close by us, and seeing no more, suffered her to come aboard. She
had three men in her, who brought off five cocoa-nuts, for which I
gave each of them a knife and a string of beads, to encourage them
to come off again in the morning:
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