The Inhabitants of this Bay are far more numerous than ^at any other place we have yet been in and seem to live in friendship one with a nother altho it doth not att all appear that they are united under one head. they inhabited both the Islands and the main and have a number of Heppa's or strong holds, and these are all built upon such place as nature hath in a great part fortified and what she hath left undone the people themselves have finished —
It is high-water in this Bay at full and Change of the Moon about 8 oClock and the tide at these times rises and falls upon a perpendicular, 6 or 8 feet. It appears from the few observations I have been able to make of the tides on the Sea Coast, that the flood comes from the southward; and I have lately had reasons to think that there is a Current which comes from the westward and sets along shore to the SE ^or SSE as the Land lays