At nine at night the cape bore W. distant six leagues; stood out to sea till eleven o’clock, then wore and stood in, the wind shifting to N.N.E.  The next morning we steered in for the bay, and saw those people again; but the wind soon afterwards veering to the westward, and blowing strong, we were obliged to bear away:  We could not by any means come to the knowledge of these people; whether they are unfortunate creatures that have been cast away, or whether they are inhabitants about the river Gallegoes, we can’t tell.

Tuesday the 15th, fresh gales and fair weather.  This morning saw the land; the southmost point bore W.S.W., the northmost point N.N.E.  At eight saw two ledges of rocks, running two leagues out from a point of land which makes like an old castle.  At noon the extremes of the land bore W. by N. distant three leagues, had a good observation, latitude 49:  10 S. Course made this twenty-four hours is N. by E. half E. distant 104 miles, longitude in 74:  05 W.

Wednesday, the 16th, at noon abreast of Penguin island, not above half a mile from shore.  We saw on this island seals and penguins without number, the shore being entirely covered with them.  We find the penguin exactly to answer Sir John Narborough’s description; therefore we beg leave to give it the reader in that excellent navigator’s own words:  “The penguin is a fowl that lives by catching and eating fish, which he dives for, and is very nimble in the water; he is as big as a brant goose, and weighs near about eight pounds; they have no wings, but flat stumps like fins; their coat is a downy stumped feather; they are blackish grey on the backs and heads, and white about their necks and down their bellies; they are short-legged like a goose, and stand upright like little children in white aprons, in companies together; they are full-necked, and headed and beaked like a crow, only the point of their bill turns down a little; they will bite hard, but they are very tame, and will drive in herds to your boat-side like sheep, and there you may knock’em on the head, all one after another; they will not make any great haste away.”  We steered N.W. by N. for the harbour of Port Desire:  The going into this harbour is very remarkable; on the south side lies, one mile in the land, an high peaked-tip rock, much like a tower, looking as though it was a work of art set up for a land-mark to steer into this harbour; this rock is forty feet high.  At five o’clock got into the harbour, run up to Seal Island, which lieth about a league up; here we killed more seal in half an hour than we could carry off, being obliged to leave the greatest part of what we killed behind.  The people eating greedily of the seal, were seized with violent fevers and pains in their heads.  While we were at Port Desire we had seal and fowl in abundance.  The carpenter found here a parcel of bricks, some of’em with letters cut in them, on one of those bricks these words were very plain and legible, viz. Capt.