paſſing through ſtrong ripplings and veins of currents, all of which run to the Weſt till we made the iſles.
March 12.On the twelfth, at break of day, we ſaw Chatham Iſle, and by ſun-ſet came to an anchor in Stephen's bay, near the South Weſt point of the iſle in twenty-eight fathom water; the two points of the bay bearing North Eaſt and South Weſt, and the Kicker rock, bearing Weſt, North Weſt, at the diſtance of two miles. We attempted to get into this bay to the Weſtward of the rock, but as there was little wind, with a current running right out, and no foundings to be got, with fifty fathom of line, till within three quarters of a mile of the ſhore, and then a rocky bottom, we hauled out to the North, and went in to the Eaſtward of the Kicker rock, there being regular foundings between it and the bluff, which formed the Eaſtern point of the bay: the greateſt depth between them thirty fathoms, but the deepeſt water is near the rock.
We lay in this bay till 17.the ſeventeenth of March, employed in ſearching for ſalt, procuring a ſtock of turtles, and recovering ſeveral of the crew, who were afflicted with boils, they were ſoon reſtored by the fruit