Having passed the Burning Island, I shaped my course for two islands, called Turtle Isles, which lie north-east by east a little easterly, and distant about fifty leagues from the Burning Isle.  I fearing the wind might veer to the eastward of the north, steered twenty leagues north-east, then north-east by east.  On the 28th we saw two small low islands, called Lucca-Parros, to the north of us.  At noon I accounted myself twenty leagues short of the Turtle Isles.

The next morning, being in the latitude of the Turtle Islands, we looked out sharp for them, but saw no appearance of any island till eleven o’clock, when we saw an island at a great distance.  At first we supposed it might be one of the Turtle Isles, but it was not laid down true, neither in latitude nor longitude from the Burning Isle, nor from the Lucca-Parros, which last I took to be a great help to guide me, they being laid down very well from the Burning Isle, and that likewise in true latitude and distance from Omba, so that I could not tell what to think of the island now in sight, we having had fair weather, so that we could not pass by the Turtle Isles without seeing them, and this in sight was much too far off for them.  We found variation 1 degrees 2 minutes east.  In the afternoon I steered north-east by east for the islands that we saw.  At two o’clock I went and looked over the fore-yard, and saw two islands at much greater distance than the Turtle Islands are laid down in my drafts, one of them was a very high peaked mountain, cleft at top, and much like the Burning Island that we passed by, but bigger and higher; the other was a pretty long high flat island.  Now I was certain that these were not the Turtle Islands, and that they could be no other than the Bande Isles, yet we steered in to make them plainer.  At three o’clock we discovered another small flat island to the north-west of the others, and saw a great deal of smoke rise from the top of the high island.  At four we saw other small islands, by which I was now assured that these were the Bande Isles there.  At five I altered my course and steered east, and at eight east-south-east, because I would not be seen by the inhabitants of those islands in the morning.  We had little wind all night, and in the morning, as soon as it was light we saw another high peaked island; at eight it bore south-south-east half-east, distance eight leagues:  and this I knew to be Bird Isle.  It is laid down in our drafts in latitude 5 degrees 9 minutes south, which is too far southerly by twenty-seven miles, according to our observation, and the like error in laying down the Turtle Islands might be the occasion of our missing them.