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 Captain Cheap was hipwrecked there, I was dicouraged from paying any further attention to it. The inlet, which was the object of my earch, is not a mile wide; a pace, which can be dicerned, but on a very near approach. The Anna Pink did not ee it, until he was within a mile or two of the rocks and breakers, among which it lies; and although they may hew themelves, the depth of water is o great in the bay, that when found, no whaler will attempt to make it, becaue he cannot trut to his anchors. I tried for ounding everal times off Wager Ile, but got no bottom; neither was the colour of the water o much changed here, as the day before we made the land.

By the Anna PinksPink's [sic] uppoed Latitude of that place, and my own obervations, I have no doubt, as was conjectured, at the time, that the crew of the Wager heard the Anna PinksPink's [sic] guns; and that he lay under the main to the Eat of Wager Iland. If the deign propoed by Captain Cheap had been adopted, of coating in the boats, it is more than probable that it would have ucceeded; and the well-known ditrees of that officer and his crew would then have been avoided. The many ecapes and voyages which, from hipwreck, views of gain, and other caues, have been made and performed in boats within thee few years,