The Next Day We Got Up Our
Anchor, And That Afternoon Came To An Anchor Once More Near Two
Islands And A Shoal Of Coral Rocks That Face The Bay.
Here I
scrubbed my ship; and finding it very improbable I should get any
further here, I made the
Best of my way out to sea again, sounding
all the way; but finding, by the shallowness of the water, that
there was no going out to sea to the east of the two islands that
face the bay, nor between them, I returned to the west entrance,
going out by the same way I came in at, only on the east instead of
the west side of the small shoal: in which channel we had ten,
twelve, and thirteen fathom water, still deepening upon us till we
were out at sea. The day before we came out I sent a boat ashore to
the most northerly of the two islands, which is the least of them,
catching many small fish in the meanwhile, with hook and line. The
boat's crew returning told me that the isle produces nothing but a
sort of green, short, hard, prickly grass, affording neither wood
nor fresh water, and that a sea broke between the two islands--a
sign that the water was shallow. They saw a large turtle, and many
skates and thornbacks, but caught none.
It was August the 14th when I sailed out of this bay or sound, the
mouth of which lies, as I said, in 25 degrees 5 minutes, designing
to coast along to the north-east till I might commodiously put in at
some other port of New Holland.
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