A fresh steady gale and fine weather. at 1 PM made sail to the westward and at half past 3 saw land to the N.W. which we got up with at sun set, and _^ ^it prov'd to be a low woody Island of a circular form and not much above a Mile in Compass — This Island I call'd Thrum Cap, it lies in the Latitude of 18°..35' S^o and in the Longitude of 139°..48' West from Greenwich, and North 62°. West 7 Leagues from Lagoon Island- We saw no Inhabitants nor the appearence of any and yet we was _^ ^were within half a Mile of the Shore. I observed by the shore that it was near Low-water.   and at Lagoon Island I observed that it was either High-water or else there was no Ebing and flowing of the sea - from these circumstances I infer that a SBE or South Moon makes High-water-- Here we caught a King Fish being the first fish we have got in those Seas —

Voyaging Accounts