vegetable, nor found any water that was ſufficiently palatable to drink. He run four miles along the coaſt, at three quarters of a mile from the ſhore, without getting any ſoundings; at that length, found bottom at ten fathoms. This was near the diſtance we had fallen to leeward, from the time the boat had left us. I had ſounded, ſeveral times with the deep ſea lead, at four or five miles from ſhore, and got no bottom, with one hundred and fifty fathoms of line. We ſtood off and on during the night, the wind being between the South and South Eaſt. At break of day, we diſcovered that the current had taken a different direction, and had ſet us conſiderably to the Northward and Weſtward, and we could not fetch our ſituation of the preceding night. At noon, we were by obſervation, in latitude 37′ South.
I now thought it prudent to come to an anchor, in order to refreſh the people, and to determine the ſituation of the iſle. As we drew in with the ſhore, I kept the deep ſea lead going, and at the diſtance, of about five or ſix miles, we obtained ſoundings, from thirty-eight, to thirty-ſix fathoms, which continued to diminiſh, till we were within a mile of the ſhore, when we got into nineteen fathoms water, fine ſand bottom, and near the center of the iſle; in which depth we came to anchor.
