the hill into the sea right against the place where our shippe lay whereby while our men fetcht water or did anything vpon the shoare if the Indians hadde set vpon them wee could beate them off with our ordinance The same day there came diuers Canoes to our shippe bringing some Cocos nuttes and Vbas rootes others brought a liue hog and two rosted hogs for the which wee bartered and gaue them slight kniues beades and nayles Those people also were theeuish and would swim and diue exceeding well as those in the other Islands could doe their houses stood along the strād which were round made of leaues sharpe on the top and close like a paint-house to let the water fall downe about fiue and twentie foote in compas and ten or twelue foot high with a low hole to goe in stooping in them there was nothing to bee seene but some dried herbes like haye to sleepe vpon and an angling rodd or two and in some a wodden club or staffe that was all their house-hold stuffe both the best and worser sort for the king himselfe had no more The 23 we bartered againe for more Cocos nuts and Vbas rootes which the Canoes brought to our ship that day there came a great number of men downe to the strand which as it seemed came from all places of the Island wondring to see our ship The 24. Aris Clauson Reymie Simonson Snocke and Cornelison Schouten went on land to bee hostages to make friendship with the Indians and for them wee had 6. of their principall men in our shippe whom wee vsed friendly giuing them meate and drinke and some presents as they did to our men giuing them Cocos and Vbas rootes to eate and water to drinke The king shewed our men great reuerence and gaue them foure litle hogs that day our men fetcht fiue fats full of water peaceably with out quarreling for when any of the Indians came neere our boate the king himselfe came thether and draue them thence or sent one of his men to doe it His men were very obedient vnto him for as it chanced that one of our coutelasses was stolen away from vs and wee told one of the kings gentlemen thereof hee gaue some of the Indians charge to fetch it againe and presently he that had taken it was sought for and although hee was gone a good way of they brought him backe who being come the coutelasse was layd downe at our feete he was beaten with staues they making signes vnto vs with their fingers vpon their throates that if the Herico that is the king knew of it his head should be cut off and after that wee had nothing stolen from vs neither on the shoare nor in the shippe nor else where neither durst they take a fish that wee angled for Those people were very fearefull of our shooting for when we shot off a musket they all ranne quaking and shivering away and wee put them in more feare when wee shewed them that vvee could shoot with the great peeces which the king desired vs once to doe which being done they were all so fearefull and abasht thereat that all of them as also the king sitting vnder his Belay or canopy notwithstanding all that we could say or doe to perswade them sore amased ranne into the woods and left our men sitting there alone But not long after they came againe scarse halfe well assured The 25. Aris Clawson Claus Iohnson and Daniel le Maire went on land againe to barter for hogs but they would not barter But after the king hadde sayd his prayers which hee vsed to doe euery time that wee went on shore shewed vs great friendship and we the like to him The 26. Iacob le Maire our Marchant and Aris Clawson went on shore but could get no hogs of the Indians because they themselues hadde great neede of them hauing litle else to eate but Vbas rootes Cocos nutts a few hogs and some Bananas our men were very welcome vnto them and hadde great reuerence shewed them for they trod vpon mats and the king and his lieutenant gaue them their Crownes which they tooke of from their owne heades and set them on their heads in recompence whereof Iacob le Maire gaue them some presents of litle worth wherewith they were very well pleased The crownes were made of long small white feathers and vnderneath and aboue mixt with some red greene feathers for they haue many Parrots and some Doues whereof they make great account for euery one of the kings counsell had a doue by him sitting vpon a sticke those Doues are white on their backes and all the rest blacke sauing their brests which are reddish all that day wee fetcht water and bartered for good store of Cocos nuts and Vbas rootes The 27. and 28. wee got all our water into the ship then William Cornelison Schouten our master and Aris Clawson went on land with the trumpets which the kings tooke great pleasure to heare and with much adoe got two hogs That day the king of the other Island came to visit the king of the Island where wee were who after great reuerence and wonderfull ceremonies vsed one vnto the other gaue each other certaine presents as roots and other things at last making a great noyse as we gest because the king of the other Island desired to try if he could take our shippe and to keepe our men there which the other king would not consent vnto fearing some hurt might happen vnto them The kings Lieuetenant or his Sonne came once aboord our ship whom we vsed in good sort and wondred much to see it that euening our men daunced with the Indians wherat they much reioyced marueling that we were so familiar behaued our selues so curteously among them we were there as free friendly as if we had beene at home in our owne houses The nine and twentieth in the morning Iacoble Maire Aris Clawson with Claus Iohnson Ban and one of our Pilots went on shore and being there went into the land and climed vp vpon a hill to see what fruite grew thereon and to behold the cituation of the Island and being vpon the hill the old king and his brother came thither to beare them company there they saw nothing but wildernes and some valleys that were all bare by reason of the great store of raine that had fallen they also found some red colour wherewith the women colour their heads and faces and when they saw that our men were weary with going they made signes vnto them to goe downe to the shippe againe and ledde them by a good way to a place where there was some Cocos trees full of nuts there they made our men sit downe and the kings Lieuetenant putting a string about his feete or his hands climed quickely vp a smooth high tree and in a trice fetcht downe 10. Cocos nuts which at one crush with a sticke or a piece of wood he
our course Westward with an east winde and an in different gale rainie weather and smoth water The same day wee were vnder 14. degrees 46. minutes That Island was 15. leagues distant from the other we called it the water Island by cause there we got some water The 17. wee gaue our men six cups of water and sod a great ketle with pottage made of the greene herbes that wee had in water Island which did our men some good and eased them of their loosenesse The 18. in the morning wee saw an other low Island south west from vs lying West north west and east south east as farre as wee could see at the least twentie leagues distant from the other Wee made to it and being hard by it sent out our boate to sound the depth they told vs they found ground by a point of land from whence there came a streame at twentie twentie fiue and fortie fathom running softly downe about a musket shot from the land whereupon wee sent the boate with our emptie caske thither hoping to finde vvater When it came to the land they let the Schut lie fast at a dreg in the water and drew one an other with a rope though the water to land as they did before there they sought a good vvay vvithin a vvood for fresh vvater but because they had no armes with them and savv a vvilde man vvho as they thought had a bovv in his hand they turned presently backe to the Shalop and came aboord againe vvithout doing any thing and lying a good vvay from the shoare there came fiue or six vvild men to the strand vvho seeing that our men were gon went backe againe into the wood Vpon that Island there were great store of greene wild trees being also full of salt water within When our men came into the shippe they were couered all ouer vvith flies in such abundance that we could not know them their faces hands and Scute and all full and the owers also as farre as they were out of the water were couered ouer with blacke flies wonderfull to behold those flies came with them aboord our ship and flue so thicke vpon our bodies and in our faces that vve knew not how to shun them for wee could hardly eate or drinke but all was full of them vve still wipt our faces and hands and made flaps to kill as many as wee could this continued two or three dayes with great trouble vnto vs all at last wee had a good gale of winde whereby and with continuall killing them in the ende when three or four dayes were past we were rid of them wee called that Island the Flie Island and therewith set forward from it and had some raine as also the next day whereby wee gathered so much water with clothes and sayles that it holpe vs well in the night wee made no great way but often times let the ship driue that wee might not by night fall vpon such low Islands and spoyle our ship The 23. wee were vnder 15. degrees 4. minutes and then againe had great hollow bill ovves out of flie south which the next day also continued the winde vvas north east and most part east and east and by south There they sayd that Terra Australis which we sought for lay yet 250. leagues further The 25. wee filled foure vessells full of raine water and still had hollow billowes out of the south as we commonly haue in the Spanish seas out of the north west The 3. of May the winde was still east and wee say led West and at woone were vnder 15 degrees 3 minutes That day we saw many great Dorados which were the first that wee had seene in the south sea The 9. Wee were vnder 15. degrees 20. minutes and at that time as wee thought were 1510. leagues distant from the coast of Peru and Chili About noone wee saw a sayle which as wee gessed was a Barke comming out of the south and went northward towards vs we presently made towards it and as it came neere to vs wee shot at it with one of our peeces right ouer her to make them strike but they would not then wee shot againe but yet they would not strike with that we put out our Shalop with 10. musketiers in it to take her which calling to them wee shot another peece yet without any intent to reach or to hurt them but they would not strike but sought as well as they could to get away from vs and got to loofeward of vs but our Shalop being too crafty for them rowed to them and being about halfe a musket shot from them shot foure muskets one after an other as they drew neere to her and before they could reach her some of her men in great feare leapt ouerboord whereof one of them had a little child and another was hurt and had three holes in his backe but not very deepe for it was hayleshot those we fetcht out of the water againe they also threw much of their goods ouer boord and amongst the rest three Hennes our men leapt into their ship and carryed them into our ship they not once resisting for in truth they had no armes when they were in our ship we fetcht two men more that were left in theirs which presently fell downe before vs and kist our feete and hands one of them was a very old man the other a young man wee could not vnderstand them but vsed them kindely and presently the Shalop rowd to fetch those that leapt ouerboord to saue their liues but they gotte but two of them that droue vpon one of their oares and pointed to our men with their hands to the ground as much to say that the rest were drownd one of those two that was hurt whom wee drest had long yealowish haire In that shippe there was at least eight women three young sucking children and some of nine or ten yeares old so that we made account they were three and twentie in all cleane naked prople both men and women onely something hanging before their priuie members About euening vvee set the men on boord their shippe againe that were welcome to their wiues which claspt them about the necks and kist them Wee gaue them beades which they hung about their neckes and some kniues and shewed them all the friendâ—hip we could and they the like to vs giuing vs two firâ—â— Matiens and two Cocos nuts for they had not many that was all they had to eate and drinke and they had drunke out all the vvater out of the nuttes so that they had no more drinke Wee saw them drinke salt vvater out of the Sea and gaue it also to their young children to drinke which vvee thought to bee against Nature They had certaine clothes vvhich they vvare before their priuie members and therevvith couered themselues against the heate of the Sunne of a yealowish colour They vvere reddish people that annoynted themselues with Oyle the Women had
2. or 3. Canoes to it with blacke Indians in them all naked without any thing before their members which fiercely cast stones at our men with slings but as soone as our men began to shoote at them they fled away The Shalop came on boord againe without finding any ground telling vs that the peoples language was cleane contrary to the former we sayled along by the coast which was very high and greene pleasant to behold there we saw much land as it had bin houses at euening we got about the point into a bay there we anchored at 45. fathom vnfit and vneuen ground The same euening there came 2. Canoes to the ship and spake to vs but we vnderstoode them not all that night they held watch against vs with fire all along their coast we lay about a Cannon shot distant from the shore against a running riuer that night it was very still calme moone-shine weather the wind on the land there came some Canoes close vnder the gallery of our shippe from whence wee threw them some beades shewing them all the friendship wee could withall making signes vnto them to bring vs some Cocos nuts hogs oxen or goates if they had any but they stayed still most part of the night by vs crying and hollowing after their manner They were wilde blacke and rude men This land as we gest lay distant from the coast of Peru 1840. leagues The 26. In the morning there came 8. Canoes about our ship whereof one had 11. men in it the other 4.5.6 and 7. men They rowed close about our shippe and were well furnished with armes after their manner as Assagayes or Clubs wooden swordes and slings we shewed them what friendship we could and gaue them beades and other trash making signes to them to goe on shore to setch vs hogs hens Cocos nuts and other fruite such as they had but they had another meaning and all together began fiercely to sling with their slings other weapons thinking to master vs but we standing vpon our guarde shot with our muskets and great shot amongst them and slew at least 10. or 12. of them They left the great Canoe and 3. other and leaping into the sea swam to land we put out our Shalop and rowed with it among those that swam away and slaying some of them brought three of them prisoners into our shippe that were sore wounded and 4. of their Canoes which we hewed in peeces to make fire for the Cooke The hurt men were cured but one of them dyed about noone our men rowed with the 2. wounded men to the land along the shore there the prisoners cryed to their fellowes to bring vs hogs Bananas and Cocos nuts wherewith one Canoe came aboord that brought a little hog and a bunch of Bananas wee set one of the men at ten hogs ransome the other that was sore hurt we let goe in the Canoe because we doubted he would not liue those men had 2. holes bored in their noses on either side one wherein they ware rings strange to beholde There we saw an other Island lying North from that great Island The 27. VVe fild our empty vessels full of water and that day we got a hog from the land and there saw diuers red birds The 28. there came certaine Canoes aboord our ship but brought nothing with them neither would they ransom their man therefore we let him goe on shore againe Wee thought those people to be Papoos for all their haire was short and they eate Betell and Chalke mingled with it that night wee hoysed anchor and set sayle with a small gale of winde The 29. the wind was variable and our course was northwest and northwest and by north with faire weather till noone then it calmd At euening we were still in the sight of the poynt of the Island and yet we sayled along by the land which reached northwest and north and by west with many bayes and crookes The same day vve savv three high Islands more that lay northward from the great Island about 5. or 6. miles Then wee were vnder 3. degrees 20. minutes The 30. in the morning driuing in a calme diuers Canoes with blacke Indians came aboord our ship who in signe of peace as they entred brake their Assagayes ouer their heads they brought vs nothing but desired something of vs. They seemed to be better and friendlyer people then the other for they couered their priuie members with leaues and had better kind of Canoes set out before and behinde with some carued workes they are very proud of their beades which they paint with chalke and the haire of their heads also Vpon the three or foure Islands from whence those Canoes came there was great store of Cocos trees they brought vs nothing how earnestly soeuer wee vrged them that wee had neede of victuales There they stayed till euening and then went on land againe The first of Iuly in the morning after wee had driuen all the night in a calme before the streame about two leagues wee anchored betweene an Island of two miles long and the firme land of Guinea about noone there came 25. Canoes toward our ship with many men well armed being the same people who the day before brake their Assagaies ouer their heads and made a friendly shew vnto vs but with intent to abuse vs as after it appeared who seeing vs to lie in a calme thought to take our ship from vs we had 2. anchors hanging out before at the bough a litle puld vp whereon they sate on each anchor a man with a Pingay or girdle in their hands wherewith they vse to hold or draw forth their Canoes and so thought to draw the ship to shore the rest hung fast vpon the ship we still standing vpon our guarde at last they began fiercely to throw at vs with stones and other weapons and thereby hurt one of our men being the first that was hurt in all our voyage but while they were busie to assaile vs thinking they had got the vpper hand we shot among them with our Muskets and with our vpper tyre of Ordinance and kild at least 12. or 13. of them and hurt many more and while they fledde away our men rowd with the shalop well armed after them and tooke one of their Canoes with 3. men in it whereof one that was dead they threw ouer-boord the other 2. leapt into the water but one of them being kild by one of our men the other yeelded himselfe prisoner being a yong man about 18. yeares old whom wee named Moses after our mans name that was hurt Those people eate bread made of rootes of trees After this fight we saild all along by the land with a good gale west northwest and northwest and by west The 2. we were vnder 3. degrees 12. minutes and that day saw low land on backe-boord and also a great high hill and right before vs a low Island we sayled softly
short hayre like our men in Holland Mens hayre vvas long curled and very blacke their ship was of a strang fashiō It was made of 2. long faire Canoes with a good space betweene them in each Canoe about the middle thereof there lay two whole broad planckes of fayre redde vvood to keepe out the vvater and diuers planckes layd crosse ouer from the one Canoe to the other which were made fast together and hung a good way ouer on both endes without the Canoes very close aboue to keepe out the water before at the ende of one of the Canoes on starre-boord there stood a Mast at the end thereof hauing a forke whereon the yard lay The sayle vvas made of mats and as the vvinde blovve they sayled without Compasse or any Instruments for the Sea but hookes to fish withall whereof the vpper part was stone the other blacke bone or Torroyses shelles and some of them vvere mother of pearle Their ropes were very fayre and almost as thicke as a Cable made of such stuffe as the figge frayles in Spayne are When they sayled from vs they hold their course southeast The tenth We had the vvinde South southeast and southeast and by South and held our course West and southwest In the morning after breakefast we saw very high land on backeboord lying Southeast and by south about eight leagues from vs vve made to it and sayled all that day with a good gale but could not reach it and therefore held off in the night in the euening wee saw a sayle a great may beneath the land and presently after another also a great deale below they often wound to and fro and in the night they made fires and drew neere one vnto the other The eleuenth in the morning wee vvere neere a high Island and about tvvo Leagues southvvard from thence an other long low Island that day vvee sayled ouer a banke of foureteene fathome deepe stony ground lying about tvvo Leagues from the land and as soone as wee were ouer it wee could finde no more grounde One of the Shippes aforesaid came to vs and wee cast out a rope at our sterne thinking they would take it and draw themselues by is aboord our shippe but they could not gette it till one of our men leapt ouer boord and holp them to take it which they vntyed and tooke it into their shippe and tyed two Cocos nuts and 3 or 4 flying fishes to the rope and so let it go calling aloud to vs but we could not vnderstand them but we thought their meaning was that we should pull the rope on boord againe they also carry a Canoe in their ship which what time soeuer they can put out and are very good Sea men Their ships were of the fashion asoresayd with good sayles and are so swift of sayle that few ships in Holland can out sayle them They steere behind with 2. oares on each Canoe a man sometimes row with their oares before when they will wind the ship also windes of it selfe when they pull the oates out of the water and let it goe or alone with the winde vvee put out our Shalop to sound vvhich came and told vs that they had found ground at 15.14 and 12. fathome sheluie ground about a canon shot from the land wee presently made to it to anchor and tooke in our sayles The Negroes seeing that made fignes to vs to goe to the other Island and sayled thither before vs but wee anchored at the ende of the Island at fiue and twentie fathome sandie ground a great Cannon shot from the land That Island is a high hill almost like one of the Molucos Islandes full of trees most Cocos trees therefore wee called it Cocos Island The other Island is much longer but lower lying East and West As soone as wee were at an anchor there came three small shippes that sayled vp and dovvne about our shippe and at least nine or ten Canoes boorded vs some from the lande and some out of the little shippes among the which tvvo of them put out litle white flags in signe of peace and wee did the like Their Canoes which had 3. and 4. men a peece in them vvere flat before and sharpe behinde hewed out of a whole peece of reed wood Wherewith they could row exceeding swift and when they came neere the ship they leapt into the water and swam to our ship with their hands full of Cocos nuttes and Vbes rootes which they bartred vvith vs for nayles and beades whereof they were very desirous they gaue foure or fiue Cocos nutts for one naile or a small string of beades so that the same day wee bartered for 180. Cocos nuttes and at last there came so many on boord that wee scarse knew how to bestirre our selues We sent our Shalop towards the other Island to see if there vve could not lie better for there we lay in the open sea but the Shalop was no sooner off from our ship rowing along by the land but it was enclosed round about by 12 or 13. Canoes of the other Island and still more came to them the people within them shewing as if they vvere mad hauing certaine staues of hard wood in their hands like Clubs sharpe at the point and a litle burnt They boorded our Shalop and thought to haue taken it from vs but our men being thereby constrained to defend themselues let flee three muskets among them whereat first they laught and mockt thinking it but a sport but the third time one of them was shot into the brest cleane through his body which his fellowes seeing went presently to helpe him and finding him to be so sore hurt all of them kept of from the Shalop and went to one of their small shippes with sayles and calling to it would haue hadde them to ouer row the Shalop as wee gest but they would not for their Canoes had bin aboord our ship where they had beene well vsed and friendly delt with all Those people were very theeuish for in our sight they stole one of our leads wherewith our men vsed to sound and whatsoeuer they saw they would steale and swim away with it as some of them did that stole avvay one of our mens pillovves and couerlet others tooke kniues and vvhat else they could finde Wherevvith they presently leapt ouer boorde and svvam avvay so that in the night vvee vvere forst to take in our Shalop least they should cut the rope and carrie it avvay they vvere exceeding desirous of iron looking round about vpon the nayles and bolts of the shippe thinking to pull them out and to steale them avvay but they vvere to fast in the vvood They vvere lusty men vvell proportioned and of great stature and vvent all naked and vnarmed onely their priuie members couered Their haire vvas drest after diuers fashions some short and some finely curled some had long haire bound vp in plaits in seuerall manner they vvere notable svvimmers
three hogs more Which hee brought aboord the shippe and then wee prepared our selues to set sayle to the great contentment of the Indians of that Island because as long as wee were there they alwayes feared we would kil them and take their country from them Those people were men of good vnderstanding and of great stature for the least man of them was as big as the tallest of vs and the tallest of them was farre higher then any of vs they were strong men and well proportioned of body and limbs they went very fast and swam and diued vnder the water excellent well their colour was altogether browne yealow they were very curious in the dressing and trimming of their haire some hadde it curled some frizled some ware it bound vp in long foldes 4.5 or 6. together as our women doe in haire-laces and some which was strange to see had their haire standing vpright vpon their heads about a quarter of an elle long like hogs bristles The king had a long locke of haire on the left side of his head that hung downe beneath his hipps bound vp with a knot or two His gentlemen hadde two such lockes on each side of their heads one they went naked all alike both men and women onely some litle thing handsomely tyed before their priuie members The women were very vnsightly both in face and body of small stature Their haire cut close to their heades as our mens in Holland their brests long hanging downe to their bellies like lether satchels they are very lecherous for they suffer themselues to be vsed by their men openly in all mens sight and in the kings owne presence onely vnder a mat We could not perceiue that they worshipped God or any Gods or vsed any deuotion neither the one nor the other but liued without care like birdes in the wood They had no skill of buying or selling but with flaggs they deliuered vs some what and vvee in like sort to them againe They neither sowe nor reape nor doe any worke There the earth of it selfe yeeldes all that they neede to sustaine their liues as Cocos Vbas Bananas and such like fruit When the water falles The women looke vpon the shoare on the sea side for fishes and when they will they take them with their hookes and eate them raw so that there men may plainely behold and see the golden world whereof the Poets vvrite When vvee left that Island vvee called it Horne Island after the name of the towne from whence vvee came and the bay vvherein vvee anchored the Vnities bay after our shippes name that day for the most part vve were busie to get out and to hoyse vp our anchors one of our cables vvas fretted in peeces with the sharpenesse of the ground where it lay so vvee lost that anchor then wee drew vp an other anchor and the cable fretting vpon a cliffe brake as wee wound it vp and lost that anchor also This bay lies on the south side of the Eye land in a docke on the one side their is a sand which at low water is dry on the other side the firme land but yet foule vpon the Shore There vve lay with foure anchors and foure cables out at 10. fathom sandy ground about a musket shot from the litle riuer from vvhence the fresh water ran Wee might vvell haue lyen with the ship in the litle riuer without danger in the place vvhere vvee lay vve could not stirre because it vvas so narrovv about noone vve vvere vnder sayle and ranne West south vvest till euening to get into the broad sea after that vve held our course vvest vvith an east vvinde glad that vve had eased and refreshed our selues so vvell at that good Island and vvere so vvell prouided of good vvater some hogs Vbas rootes and a great number of Cocos nuts and Bananas the place vvhere vvee lay is vnder 14. degees 56. minutes The first of Iune about noone we were vnder 13. degrees 15. minutes the vvinde east our course North. The next day the vvind still continued easterly and vve went northvvest and vvest and most part northvvest and by vvest with a hard course vve vvere vnder 14. degrees 45. minutes then wee savv great store of birds and held vvest and vvest south vvest with hollow billowes out of the south southeast The 20. the winde northeast wee vvent vvest and in the euening saw land all that night driuing without sayle to keepe off from the land and then were vnder 4. degrees 50. minutes The 21. the winde east vvee made towards the land that was very low and going neere vnto it found many sands which strecht northvvest of from the land there were 3. or 4. Islands all very small but full of trees There a Canoe boorded vs being of the same fashion as afore but some what greater able to hold 5 or 6 men The men in all respectes as the former and spake the same language but some what blacker hauing some thing before their priuie members Their armes vvere bowes and arrowes which were the first bowes that wee saw among the Indians in the south sea wee gaue them some beades and nayles but they pointed towards the West to tell vs that there was more land where their king dwelt and many things to be hadde Therefore vve held our course vvestvvard againe finding no fit place to anchor in This Island lay south southvvest and vvest from vs vnder 4. degrees 47. minutes The 22. the winde east south east wee sayld west and vvest and by north vnder 4. degrees 45. minutes that quarter wee hadde a good gale of vvinde and faire weather and that day saw at least twelue or thirteene Islands one close by an other vvest south vvest from vs reaching southeast and northvvest about halfe a league but sayled along by them leauing them on backeboord The 24. the vvinde south at noone wee saw land on back-boord being 3. low Islands that lay southwest from vs very greene and full of trees two of them were 2 miles long a peece the third very litle the shore was hard cliffie ground there likewise we could find no anchoring wee called them the Greene Islands We also saw a high Island that had 7. or 8. houels forth right lying west by north from vs in the night we held off and on staying till day The 25. in the morning as wee were sayling by the aforesaid Island we saw other land before vs in the southwest which was exceeding high which we thought to be the poynt of Noua Guinea we made towards it leauing the other high Island that lay westward which we called S. Iohns Island because it was S. Iohn Baptists day About noone wee got to it and sayled along by it with an east southeast wind but could find no anchor ground we sent out our Shalop to sound the depth that went along by the shore betweene the ship and it and being somewhat neare the shore there came