The outlet lies S.E. by E. and N.W. by W. and nearly in the direction of E.S.E. and W.N.W. from Cape Terrawhitte.  We found thirteen fathoms water a little within the entrance, clear ground.  It seemed to me that a leading wind was necessary to go in and out of this passage, on account of the rapidity of the tides.  I, however, had but little time to make observations of this nature, as night was at hand, and I had resolved to return on board.  On that account I omitted visiting a large hippa, or strong-hold, built on an elevation on the north side, and about a mile or two within the entrance, The inhabitants of it, by signs, invited us to go to them; but, without paying any regard to them, we proceeded directly for the ship, which we reached by ten o’clock, bringing with us some fish we had got from the natives, and a few birds we had shot.  Amongst the latter were some of the same kinds of ducks we found in Dusky Bay, and we have reason to believe that they are all to be met with here.  For the natives knew them all by the drawings, and had a particular name for each.

On the 6th, wind at N.E., gloomy weather with rain.  Our old friends having taken up their abode near us, one of them, whose name was Pedero, (a man of some note,) made me a present of a staff of honour, such as the chiefs generally carry.  In return, I dressed him in a suit of old clothes, of which he was not a little proud.  He had a fine person, and a good presence, and nothing but his colour distinguished him from an European.  Having got him, and another, into a communicative mood, we began to enquire of them if the Adventure had been there during my absence; and they gave us to understand, in a manner which admitted of no doubt, that, soon after we were gone, she arrived; that she staid between ten and twenty days, and had been gone ten months.  They likewise asserted that neither she, nor any other ship, had been stranded on the coast, as had been reported.  This assertion, and the manner in which they related the coming and going of the Adventure, made me easy about her; but did not wholly set aside our suspicions of a disaster having happened to some other strangers.  Besides what has been already related, we had been told that a ship had lately been here, and was gone to a place called Terato, which is on the north side of the strait.  Whether this story related to the former or no, I cannot say.  Whenever I questioned the natives about it, they always denied all knowledge of it, and for some time past, had avoided mentioning it.  It was but a few days before, that one man received a box on the ear for naming it to some of our people.

After breakfast I took a number of hands over to Long Island, in order to catch the sow, to put her to the boar and remove her to some other place; but we returned without seeing her.  Some of the natives had been there not long before us, as their fires were yet burning; and they had undoubtedly taken her away.  Pedero dined with us, eat of every thing at table, and drank more wine than any one of us, without being in the least affected by it.