Cracatoa is esteemed very healthy, in comparison of the neighbouring countries.  It consists of high land, rising gradually on all sides from the sea; and the whole is covered with trees, except a few spots which the natives have cleared for rice-fields.  The number of people on the island is very inconsiderable.  Their chief, as are those of all the other islands in the Strait, is subject to the king of Bantam.  The coral reefs afford plenty of small turtles, but other refreshments are very scarce, and sold at an enormous price.

Latitude of the road where the Resolution
  anchored 8 deg. 6’ south. 
Longitude, by Mr Bayley’s timekeeper 104 48 east. 
Ditto, by observation 105 36 east. 
Dip of the south end of the magnetic
  needle 26 3
Variation of the compass 1 0 west.

On the full and change days, it is high-water at 7h in the morning.  The water rises three feet two inches perpendicular.

At eight o’clock in the evening, it began to blow afresh from the westward, with violent thunder, lightning, and rain; and at three the next morning, we weighed and stood over for Prince’s Island, but the westerly wind dying away, was succeeded by a breeze from the S.E., and at the same time a strong tide setting to the S.W., prevented our fetching the island, and obliged us, at two in the afternoon, to drop anchor in sixty-five fathoms, over a muddy bottom, at three leagues distance from it; the high hill bearing S.W. by S., and the peak on Cracatoa N. by E. We had light airs and calms till six next morning, when we weighed and made sail, having, in our endeavours to heave the anchor out of the ground, twice broken the old messenger, and afterwards a new one, cut out of our best hawser.  This, however, was entirely owing to the wretched state of our cordage; as the strain was not very considerable, and we had besides assisted the cable in coming in, by clapping the cat-tackle on it.  The wind continuing fair, at noon we came to an anchor off the S.E. end of Prince’s Island, in twenty-six fathoms, over a sandy bottom; the east end of the island bearing N.N.E., the southernmost point in sight S.W. by S., the high peak N.W. 1/2 W., distant from the nearest shore half a mile.

As soon as we had come to anchor, Lieutenant Lannyon, who had been here before with Captain Cook, in the year 1770, was sent, along with the master, to look for the watering-place.  The brook from which, according to the best of his recollection, the Endeavour had been supplied, was found quite salt.  Further inland, they saw a dry bed, where the water seemed to have lodged in rainy seasons; and, about a cable’s length below, another run, supplied from an extensive pool, the bottom of which, as well, as the surface, was covered with dead leaves.  This, though a little brackish, being much preferable to the other, we began watering here early the next morning, and finished the same day.