wind made it necessary to have full sail, it was feared that some of the rigging might give way.  For that reason, soundings were taken continually with a 20-lb. lead, and a line of sixty brazas could not reach bottom, either in the channel or near the point.  This seemed very strange until it was realized that the current was carrying the lead and it did not strike bottom.  They continued thus until they were one league inside the mouth of the bay and a quarter of a mile from the shore, when the wind suddenly stopped.  Finding that the current was carrying the ship towards the mouth, an anchor was thrown overboard, after having made it fast to the big mast so that if it did not catch the bottom it would not be lost.  It was found that the anchor held.  Two more anchors were made ready to drop in case the big one should drag.  When the wind stopped and the current ceased, the vessel was found to be in twenty-two brazas, with sandy bottom[47].

At 6 a. m. of August 6, the launch, which had not been seen since sunset the day before, came to the vessel.  The pilot was asked why he had not come to meet the ship when he saw her sailing shoreward looking for the entrance of the bay, answered that at 6 p. m. he had seen a suitable harbor for the packet-boat to the east of the entrance, and when he attempted to go out the whirlpools and eddies caused by the current were such that it was impossible to make any progress, as the current carried him back towards the shore, so that he determined to stay in the harbor he had attempted to leave.  This, and the fact that the men were fired out, made him wait until 4 a. m., when he again attempted to go out, with the same result as before.  During his efforts to get out, he saw the packet-boat, and putting the bow towards her he had no difficulty in reaching her.

At 7 a. m., the commander sent the pilot to examine a harbor which was to the west-northwest.  He found it useless, because, though it had sufficient water, the bottom was sticky mud.  As Ayala was not in need of shelter then, he did not enter that harbor, as he was afraid of losing his anchor in the mud, and also because it was open from the south to the east, although the wind came from the landward which was about two leagues from the harbor[48].  He called this harbor “Carmeita,” because in it was a rock resembling a friar of that order.  There was in its vicinity an Indian village, the inhabitants of which came out from their huts and cried out and made signs for the vessel to go near them.  As the sailors were taking soundings and came near the shore, the Indians erected a pole, at the top of which was a large number of feathers.  The sailors having no orders to answer them, remained at a distance from the shore.  The Indians, thinking, no doubt, that the sailors were afraid of them, endeavored to assure them by dropping their bows to the ground, and after describing a circle in the air with the arrows stuck them in the sand.  The launch came on board again,