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 weather, during the greater part of the afternoon, the winds were at South Eat by Eat, and we teered North, North Wet with all ail et to get to an anchorage before night, keeping the lead contantly going, and during a run of eleven miles, our oundings were from thirty to thirty-ix fathoms, and on drawing near to the North Eat point of Quibo, hoaled quick to ten fathom and an half, in which bottom we came to anchor; the North end of Quibo bearing North Wet by North; and the South end, South Eat by South. The boats were immediately ent to dicover the watering place.

It was calm through the night and the early part of the morning, when we weighed anchor on the flood tide, to tow to a more convenient ituation, but finding the water hoal to four fathom, and the bottom very viible, it was dicovered that we were nearly urrounded by a reef which extended four or five miles from the hore. By the active conduct of the boats crew an anchor was carried out, and we warped off into ten fathom; a breeze then pringing up from the Eat, we made ail, and ran along the edge of the reef, ounding even, eight, nine and ten fathoms, at the ditance of a mile and half from the hore. We oon after came to anchor and moored in the bay of Port de Dames in nineteen fathoms: the North point of the bay in a line with the North point of Ile Sebacco, bore North North Eat, the watering place North 44° Wet; and South point Ile Quibo South 32° Eat. Latitude by obervation 7° 27′, and Longitude 82° 10′.