On the 22nd I sent my boat ashore again to fish:  at noon she returned with a few fish, which served me and my officers.  They caught one whiting, the first I had seen in these seas.  Our people went over to the rocky island and there found several jars of turtle, and some hanging up a-drying, and some cloths; their boat was about a mile off, striking turtle.  Our men left all as they found.  In the afternoon a very large shark came under our stern; I never had seen any near so big before.  I put a piece of meat on a hook for him but he went astern and returned no more.  About midnight, the wind being pretty moderate, I weighed and stood into the bottom of the bay, and ran over nearer the south shore, where I thought to lie and water, and at convenient times get fish for our refreshment.  The next morning I sent my pinnace with 2 hogsheads and 10 barrecoes for water; they returned at noon with the casks full of water; very thick and muddy, but sweet and good.  We found variation 15 minutes west.

The island roti.

This afternoon, finding that the breezes were set in here, and that it blew so hard that I could neither fish nor fill water without much difficulty and hazard of the boat; I resolved to be gone, having good quantity of water aboard.  Accordingly at half an hour after 2 in the morning we weighed with the wind at east by south, and stood to sea.  We coasted along by the island Roti which is high land, spotted with woods and savannahs.  The trees appeared small and shrubby, and the savannahs dry and rusty.  All the north side has sandy bays by the sea.  We saw no houses nor plantations.

More islands than are commonly laid down in the charts.  Great currents.

The next day we crowded all the sail we could to get to the west of all the isles before night but could not; for at 6 in the evening we saw land bearing south-west by west.  For here are more islands than are laid down in any charts that I have seen.  Wherefore I was obliged to make a more westerly course than I intended till I judged we might be clear of the land.  And when we were so I could easily perceive by the ship’s motion.  For till then, being under the lee of the shore, we had smooth water; but now we had a troubled sea which made us dance lustily.  This turbulent sea was occasioned in part by the current; which, setting out slanting against the wind, was by it raised into short cockling seas.  I did indeed expect a south-west current here but not so very strong as we found it.