him off.  On which he said, I think we will go and get some fish too, having nothing else to live on.  This was the last time I ever saw his honour.  When the people return’d from fishing, they told me Mr B——­n had lost his hat, the wind blowing it off his head.  I said, rather than he should want a hat I would give him my own.  One of the seamen forced a hat on his head; his name was John Duck:  But Mr B——­n would by no means wear it, saying, John, I thank you, if I accept of your kindness you must go bareheaded, and I think I can bear hardships as well as the best of you, and must use myself to them.  I took eight people and went overland to the place where the barge lay, to get the canvass that we stood so much in need of, but found that she was gone from thence.  The people in the barge told our men that they would return to us again, but it is plain they never intended it.

Thursday the 22d, this day we saw sea-fowl in vast flocks, flying to the southward, where was a dead whale.  Look’d out all this day for the barge, but to no purpose.  The barge not returning was a very great misfortune, having no boat but the cutter; and if by an unlucky accident we lose her, we must be reduced to the greatest extremities to get provision.  The persons in the barge, except the captain’s steward, always approved of going to the southward, but it seems Mr C——­l, the poltron, prevail’d on ’em to return to Captain C——­p.

Friday the 23d, saw thousands of sea-fowl; in the morning they fly to the northward, and in the evening come back to the south; they are birds of a very large size, but of what kind we do not know.  Since we have been here we saw several Indian graves; they are dug just within the surface of the earth, with a board on each side, and a cross stuck, up at the head.  The day following, a gun, a four-pounder, was seen near the anchor in Clam Bay; we call it by this name, because of the vast quantities of this sort of shell-fish which are found there.

Monday the 26th, it being very calm and fair weather, I went ashore to bring off the people; weigh’d the longboat, and took her in tow over a bar where there was ten feet water, but a great swell; as soon as we got over the bar there sprung up a breeze of wind at N.W., steer’d away S. 1/2 E. for the southmost part of land, which bore S. by E., distant fourteen leagues.  The two points of land make a large and deep sandy bay, we sounded but found no ground; it is a bold shore close to.  I kept a-head in the cutter, in order to provide a harbour for the long-boat; Providence directed us to a very good one:  It blew so hard, with thick hazy weather, that we could not keep the sea.  At eight at night we anchor’d in eight fathom water, a-breast of a fine sandy bay, and land-locked not above three boats length from the shore:  At the entrance of the harbour, which lies about a league up the lagoon, I set the land, the northmost point bore by the compass N. by E., distant twelve leagues, and the southmost S. by W., distant five leagues; the entrance lies E.