The Land of this Point is tolerable high and may be known
by a round hillick or rock that appears to be detatched
from the Point but I beleive it joins to it. Between
this Cape and Cape Iron Head the Shore forms a large
Bay which I named Rockingham Bay    before it lay
the group of Islands before mentioned and some
others nearer the shore. These Islands cover ^shelter the bay in
a manner from all winds, in which is good anchorage
the land near the shore in the bottom of this bay is
very low and woody, but a little way in land ^{back in the Country} is a continued
ridge of high land which appear'd to be barren and
rocky. Having passed Point Hillick we continued
standing to the NNW as the land trended having the
advantage of a light moon - At 6 oClock in the AM we
were a breast of a point of Land which lies NBW1/2W
11 Miles from Point Hillick   the Land between them is
very high and of a craggy barren surface   this point
I named Cape Sandwich _^^{Honour ye Earl of that name} It it may not only be known
by the high craggy land over it but by a small Island
which lies East one mile from it and some others about
two leagues to the northward _^^of it - From Cape Sandwich
the land trends west and afterwards north and forms
a fine large Bay which _^^{I call'd Halifax Bay it} is well shelterd and affords
good anchorage, at least so it appeard to me, for having
hitherto met with so little incouragement by goin a Shore
that I would not wait to land or examine it faurther

but continued rainging along shore to the northward for a parcel of small Islands laying off the northern point of the Bay and finding a channel _^^{of a Mile broad} between the three outermost and those nearer the shore we pushed through - while we did this we saw on one of the ^nearest Islands a number of the natives collicted together who seem'd to look very attentively upon the ship. they were quite naked and of a very dark Colour with short curled or frizled hair — At noon we were by observation in the Lat^de of 17°..59' and a breast of the north point of point of Halifax Bay which bore from us west 2 Miles,  this boundry of the bay is form'd by a tolerable high Island known _^^{in the Chart} by the name of Dunk Isle    it lays so near the shore as not to be distinguished from it unless you are well in with the land - at this time we were in the Longitude of 213°..57' W^t Cape Sandwich bore SBE1/2E distant 19 Miles and the northermost land in sight N 1/2W — our depth of water in the Course of this days sail was not more then 16 nor less then 7 fathom

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