at N.E. by E., we had hopes of weathering the island.  We should have succeeded, if the wind had not died away, and left us to the mercy of a great swell, which carried us fast toward the land, which was not two leagues distant.  At length, we got our head off, and some light puffs of wind, which came with showers of rain, put us out of danger.  While we lay, as it were, becalmed, several of the islanders came off with hogs, fowls, fruit, and roots.  Out of one canoe we got a goose, which was about the size of a Muscovy duck.  Its plumage was dark-grey, and the bill and legs black.

At four in the afternoon, after purchasing every thing that the natives had brought off, which was full as much as we had occasion for, we made sail, and stretched to the N., with the wind at E.N.E.  At midnight, we tacked, and stood to the S.E.  Upon a supposition that the Discovery would see us tack, the signal was omitted; but she did not see us, as we afterwards found, and continued standing to the N.; for at day-light next morning she was not in sight.  At this time the weather being hazy we could not see far, so that it was possible the Discovery might be following us; and, being past the N.E. part of the island, I was tempted to stand on, till, by the wind veering to N.E., we could not weather the land upon the other tack.  Consequently we could not stand to the N, to join, or look for, the Discovery.  At noon, we were, by observation, in latitude of 19 deg. 55’, and in the longitude of 205 deg. 3’; the S.E. point of the island bore S. by E. 1/4 E, six leagues distant; the other extreme bore N, 60 deg.  W., and we were two leagues from the nearest shore.  At six in the evening, the southernmost extreme of the island bore S.W., the nearest shore seven or eight miles distant; so that we had now succeeded in getting to windward of the island, which we had aimed at with so much perseverance.

The Discovery, however, was not yet to be seen.  But the wind, as we had it, being very favourable for her to follow us, I concluded, that it would not be long before she joined us.  I therefore kept cruizing off this S.E. point of the island, which lies in the latitude of 19 deg. 34’, and in the longitude of 205 deg. 6’, till I was satisfied that Captain Clerke could not join me here.  I now conjectured, that he had not been able to weather the N.E. part of the island, and had gone to leeward, in order to meet me that way.

As I generally kept from five to ten leagues from the land, no canoes, except one, came off to us till the 28th, when we were visited by a dozen or fourteen.  The people who conducted them brought, as usual, the produce of the island.  I was very sorry that they had taken the trouble to come so far.  For we could not trade with them, our old stock not being, as yet, consumed; and we had found, by late experience, that the hogs could not be kept alive, nor the roots preserved from putrefaction, many days.  However, I intended not to leave this part of the island before I got a supply, as it would not be easy to return to it again, in case it should be found necessary.