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 had gathered a large quantity of beans, known, I believe, by the name of the Spanih broom: they alo brought with them a coniderable number of prickly pears. As oon as it was light, I ent the boat, with cocoa nuts and garden eeds of every kind, which I caued to be own in the mall cove, at the South point, and tood with the hip off and on till they returned. In the afternoon, being within three or four miles of the cove, we got bottom, at forty-eight fathoms, fine and. I then ent a boat, to ound between us and the land, as well as to the Wetward, when bottom was found at ten fathoms depth, at half a mile from the hore, to fifty fathoms, at three or four miles ditance.

By ten the next day, I had coated the South and Wet parts of the ile, and ounded frequently, particularly in a mall bay, at the North Wet, where we found good bottom, but it was expoed to the North Wet winds, which are repreented to be the prevailing ones: though I found the winds, in general, Eaterly. The unettled weather we had lately experienced, was ufficient to prevent my anchoring at this eaon, although in with the ile, unles in a more ecurely heltered bay, then I had as yet dicovered.