Our People, Finding Nothing But Nets
And Images, Brought Some Of Them Away, Which Two Of My Men Brought
Aboard In A Small Canoe, And Presently After My Boats Came Off.
I
ordered the boatswain to take care of the nets till we came at some
place where they might be disposed of for some refreshment for the
use of all the company.
The images I took into my own custody.
In the afternoon I sent the canoe to the place from whence she had
been brought, and in her two axes, two hatchets (one of them
helved), six knives, six looking-glasses, a large bunch of beads,
and four glass bottles. Our men drew the canoe ashore, placed the
things to the best advantage in her, and came off in the pinnace
which I sent to guard them; and now, being well-stocked with wood
and all my water-casks full, I resolved to sail the next morning.
All the time of our stay here we had very fair weather, only
sometimes in the afternoon we had a shower of rain, which lasted not
above an hour at most; also some thunder and lightning, with very
little wind; we had sea and land breezes, the former between the
south-south-east, and the latter from north-east to north-west.
This place I named Port Montague in honour of my noble patron: it
lies in the latitude of 6 degrees 10 minutes south, and meridian
distance from Cape St. George 151 miles west.
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