[Footnote 29:  “They have also javelins.  These people seem to be very poor and perfectly harmless, coming forth to their respective callings, as soon, as the morning dawns, and as soon as the sun sets retiring to their different habitations.”—­“They are very dexterous in striking the fish with their javelins, though they lie some feet under water.  In these instances they seem to shew the utmost extent of their ingenuity; for we found them incapable of understanding things the most obvious to their senses.  For instance, on their first coming on board, amongst the trinkets we presented them were some knives and scissars, and in giving them these, we tried to make them sensible of their use; but after our repeated endeavours, by shewing the manner of using them, they continued as inflexible as at first, and could not learn to distinguish the blades from the handles.”]

At five o’clock in the morning of the 2d, we weighed and towed with the tide, but at ten, having no wind, and finding that we drove again to the eastward, we anchored with the stream anchor in fifteen fathom, upon a bank which lies about half a mile from the north shore; after veering about two-thirds of a cable, we had five-and-forty fathom along-side and still deeper water at a little distance.  The south point of Saint Jerom’s Sound bore N.N.E. distant two miles, and Cape Quod W.S.W. distant about eight miles.  From the south point of Saint Jerom’s Sound to Cape Quod is three leagues, in the direction of S.W. by W. The tides in this reach are exceedingly strong, though very irregular; we found them set to the eastward from nine o’clock in the morning till five o’clock the next morning, and the other four hours, from five to nine, they set to the westward.[30] At twelve o’clock at night, it began to blow very hard at W.N.W. and at two in the morning the ship drove off the bank:  We immediately hove the anchor up, and found both the flukes broken off; till three o’clock we had no ground, and then we drove into sixteen fathom, at the entrance of Saint Jerom’s Sound; as it still blew a storm, we immediately let go the best bower, and veered to half a cable.  The anchor brought the ship up at so critical a moment, that we had but five fathom, and even that depth was among breakers.  We let go the small bower under foot, and at five, finding the tide set to the westward, and the weather more moderate, we got up both the anchors, and kept working to windward.  At ten we found the tide setting again strongly to the eastward, and we therefore sent the boat back to seek for an anchoring-place, which she found in a bay on the north shore, about four miles to the eastward of Cape Quod, and a little way within some small islands:  We endeavoured to get into this bay, but the tide rushed out of it with such violence, that we found it impossible, and at noon bore away for York Road, at the entrance of Bachelor’s River, where we anchored about an hour afterwards.

[Footnote 30:  “The streights are here four leagues over, and it is difficult to get any anchorage, on account of the unevenness and irregularity of the bottom, which in several places close to the shore has from twenty to fifty fathoms water, and in other parts no ground is to be found with a line of a hundred and fifty fathoms.”]