But Before These Went Away We Saw
Two More Canoes Coming; Therefore We Stood Away To The Northward
From Them, And Then Lay By Again Till Day.
We saw no more boats
this night, neither designed to suffer any to come aboard in the
dark.
By nine o'clock the next morning we were got within a league of the
great island, but were kept off by violent gusts of wind. These
squalls gave us warning of their approach by the clouds which hung
over the mountains, and afterwards descended to the foot of them;
and then it is we expect them speedily.
On the 3rd of March, being about five leagues to leeward of the
great island, we saw the mainland ahead, and another great high
island to leeward of us, distant about seven leagues, which we bore
away for. It is called in the Dutch drafts Garret Dennis Isle. It
is about fourteen or fifteen leagues round, high and mountainous,
and very woody. Some trees appeared very large and tall, and the
bays by the seaside are well stared with cocoa-nut trees, where we
also saw some small houses. The sides of the mountains are thick-
set with plantations, and the mould in the new-cleared land seemed
to be of a brown-reddish colour. This island is of no regular
figure, but is full of points shooting forth into the sea, between
which are many sandy bays, full of cocoa-nut trees. The middle of
the isle lies in 3 degrees 10 minutes south latitude.
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