The Flesh Of It Was Divided Among My
Men, And They Took Care That No Waste Should Be Made Of It.
It was the 7th of August when we came into Shark's Bay, in which we
anchored at three several
Places, and stayed at the first of them
(on the west side of the bay) till the 11th, during which time we
searched about, as I said, for fresh water, digging wells, but to no
purpose. However, we cut good store of firewood at this first
anchoring-place, and my company were all here very well refreshed
with raccoons, turtle, shark, and other fish, and some fowls, so
that we were now all much brisker than when we came in hither. Yet
still I was for standing farther into the bay, partly because I had
a mind to increase my stock of fresh water, which was begun to be
low, and partly for the sake of discovering this part of the coast.
I was invited to go further by seeing from this anchoring-place all
open before me, which therefore I designed to search before I left
the bay. So on the 11th about noon I steered further in, with an
easy sail, because we had but shallow water. We kept, therefore,
good looking out for fear of shoals, sometimes shortening, sometimes
deepening the water. About two in the afternoon we saw the land
ahead that makes the south of the bay, and before night we had again
sholdings from that shore, and therefore shortened sail and stood
off and on all night, under two topsails, continually sounding,
having never more than ten fathom, and seldom less than seven.
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