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 at a mall ditance, to give it the appearance of being divided by a channel of the ea. Near the Wet part of the ile in a mall bay was a part of the wreck of a hip, that appeared to have been but lately cat away, as a whole wale plank was found undecayed. On ome of the mall iles in this bay, were the larget prickly pear-trees I had ever een.

After weighing from Stephen's bay, it was with great difficulty we cleared it by night, from the light, variable winds and torrents of rain. When we had got well out, we hove to for day-light, and then made ail for an inlet which bore from our anchoring birth, Wet by South, to Wet by North. By noon of the next day, we aw many more iles and ilets to the North and Wetward of us: and at un-et, we aw breakers a long way to the Northward and Wetward of Lord Hood's ile. Our Latitude at Noon was 0° 31′ 51″ South. We now hortened ail and tood on and off for the night. The next day we found ourelves et coniderably to the Southward and Wetward; and in ight of Charles Ile, o named by the Buccaneers. At noon our Latitude was 1° 28′ 13″ South; the extremes of Charles Ile bearing from Wet 6° North, to Wet 29° North. In the early part of the evening we got cloe in with the South end of the iland: we then hortened ail, and tood off and on