being in seventy fathom water, we brought-to till four in the morning, when we made sail in for the land; but at day-break, found our situation nearly the same as it had been at five the evening before, by which it was apparent that we had been driven about three leagues to the southward, by a tide or current, during the night.  After this we steered along the shore N.N.E. with a gentle breeze at S.W., and were so near the land as to distinguish several of the natives upon the beach, who appeared to be of a black, or very dark colour.  At noon, our latitude, by observation, was 35 deg. 27’ S. and longitude 209 deg. 23’ W.; Cape Dromedary bore S. 28 W. distant nineteen leagues, a remarkable peaked hill, which resembled a square dove-house, with a dome at the top, and which for that reason I called the Pigeon House, bore N. 32 deg. 30’ W., and a small low island, which lay close under the shore, bore N.W. distant about two or three leagues.  When I first discovered this island, in the morning, I was in hopes from its appearance, that I should have found shelter for the ship behind it, but when we came near it, it did not promise security even for the landing of a boat:  I should however have attempted to send a boat on shore, if the wind had not veered to that direction, with a large hollow sea rolling in upon the land from the S.E. which indeed had been the case ever since we had been upon it.  The coast still continued to be of a moderate height, forming alternately rocky points and sandy beaches; but within, between Mount Dromedary and the Pigeon House, we saw high mountains, which, except two, are covered with wood:  These two lie inland behind the Pigeon House, and are remarkably flat at the top, with steep rocky cliffs all round them as far as we could see.  The trees, which almost every where clothe this country, appear to be large and lofty.  This day the variation was found to be 9 deg. 50’ E., and for the two last days, the latitude, by observation, was twelve or fourteen miles to the southward of the ship’s account, which could have been the effect of nothing but a current setting in that direction.  About four in the afternoon, being near five leagues from the land, we tacked and stood off S.E. and E., and the wind having veered in the night, from E. to N.E. and N., we tacked about four in the morning, and stood in, being then about nine or ten leagues from the shore.  At eight, the wind began to die away, and soon after it was calm.  At noon, our latitude, by observation, was 35 deg. 38’, and our distance from the land about six leagues.  Cape Dromedary bore S. 37 W. distant seventeen leagues, and the Pigeon House N. 40 W.:  In this situation we had 74 fathom water.  In the afternoon, we had variable light airs and calms, till six in the evening, when a breeze sprung up at N. by W.:  At this time, being about four or five leagues from the shore, we had seventy fathom water.  The Pigeon House bore N. 45 W. Mount Dromedary S. 30 W. and the northermost land in sight N. 19 E.