the surface we find it almost an entire stone.  We saw no people here, though it is plain there have been some lately, by their wigwams or huts.  We are so closely pent up for want of room, that our lodging is very uncomfortable; the stench of the men’s wet cloaths makes the air we breathe nauseous to that degree, that one would think it impossible for a man to live below.  We came to sail, and steered out of the lagoon west; went into a sandy bay one league to the southward of the lagoon.  Indian huts to be seen, but no natives.

Monday November 2d, at five in the morning, came to sail with the wind at S. and S. by E. At noon the wind came to the W. and W.N.W. in small breezes.  This day I had a very good observation, it being the first since we left Cheap’s Island.  We found ourselves in the latitude of 50 deg. 0’ S. After observing, bore away and ran into a fine smooth passage between the island and the main.  These islands I believe to be the same that are taken notice of in Cook’s voyage.  From the entrance to the northward, to the going out of the Cape of Good Hope (as we call it) the distance is about six leagues, and the depth of the water is from two fathom to twelve; the northmost land before we came into the passage bore N. by W., and the southmost, or Cape of Good Hope, bore S. by E. In the evening anchored in a fine sandy bay; here we also saw Indian huts, but no people.  To-day we shot wild geese in abundance, and got of shell-fish, as limpets and muscles.

Tuesday the 3d, at four this morning weighed, and came to sail with the wind at W., till we got about the Cape of Good Hope, then at W.N.W., steering S., and a tumbling sea from the W. The cutter steer’d S. by E. into a deep bay; supposing them not to see the southmost land, we made the signal for her, by hoisting an ensign at the topping-lift; as the cutter was coming up to us her square sail splitted, we offer’d to take them in tow, but they would not accept it; we lay with our sails down some time before they would show any signal of making sail; coming before the wind, and a large sea, we ordered them to steer away for the southmost point of land after us, and to keep as near us as possible; but, instead of observing our directions, they steered away into the cod of a deep bay, supposed to be King’s Bay:  The cutter being much to leeward, and the weather being very thick, we were obliged to steer after her, but soon lost sight of her.  The place being exceeding dangerous, we could not venture any farther after the cutter, therefore we hauled by the wind to the southward, it continued blowing hard, with thick weather, with sunken rocks and breakers, so that we were obliged to bear away before the wind into a large bay, the tide running rampant, and in a great swell, every where surrounded with sunken rocks, that we thought nothing but a miracle could save us:  at last we got safe into the bay, and came to in two fathom water, we steered in east.  At four this morning rowed out