Eaſt, to Weſt by South. I now made a ſtretch off, bent my beſt bower, unſtowed the other anchors, tacked and ſtood in, and came to in ten fathoms water. The North Eaſt point bearing North, 45° Eaſt; the higheſt mount North, 33° 45′ Weſt; the bottom of the bay North, 56° 15′ Weſt; the Eaſtern point forming the entrance to the Cove, Weſt; and the South point, Weſt by South. In this ſituation we lay two days and a night, all hands on ſhore during the day, except one boat's crew: on the the third day, the current began to run to the North Eaſt, at the rate of two and an half, or three miles an hour, from which cauſe, we lay uneaſy at ſingle anchor. I was unwilling to moor with my bowers, as our windlaſs was in ſuch a ſtate as to render the heaving up an anchor a matter of great toil and delay; nor had we any boat to carry out a kedge ſufficiently heavy to ſteady the ſhip.
Although the weather did not preſent the moſt promiſing appearance, and the winds Eaſterly, yet, as the current run to the windward, I entertained hopes of a long continuance of fine weather, which I always found at the Sandwich Iſles, when the Northerly current ran there. I was, however, miſtaken; for in the night of the firſt