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After anchoring and his preſent wants being accommodated, he varied ſo in his future plans, to his former ones propoſed, that I could not comprehend he had any fixed one at all; and his conduct in general not correſponding to my ideas or expectations, I had only to lament, that after putting myſelf to ſo great an inconvenience, there was ſo little probability that it would be attended with any advantage to his employers. Finding my advice of no farther uſe I ſailed without him.
As ſoon as a boat was repaired, I ſet out to ſurvey the South Eaſt part of this and Albemarle Iſle. On reaching the South point of James's Iſle, I got ſight of three other iſles which I had not ſeen before, nor can I trace them in the Buccaneers accounts, no more than the iſle which we ſaw to Weſtward, when at anchor in Stephens's bay, Chatham Iſle. Theſe three iſles now ſeen, I named after the admirals Barrington, Duncan, and Jarvis. The two Northernmoſt, which are neareſt to James's Iſle, are the higheſt, and preſented the moſt agreeable appearance, being covered with trees. The Southernmoſt, which I named Barrington Iſle, is the largeſt and was the greateſt diſtance from me, it is of a moderate height, and riſes in hummocks; the South end is low, running on