Point Pearce bore North 65 degrees East eleven miles, and in a line with the hills about Mount Goodwin.

Between this time and noon the soundings were between nine and thirty-two fathoms, upon a rocky bottom.
At sunset we were in fourteen fathoms, and during the night continued sounding on a rocky bottom between ten and fourteen fathoms.
September 11.
At daylight of the 11th no land was in sight, we therefore stood to the southward to make it but were obliged to tack off without seeing any, as we shoaled rather suddenly to five fathoms.

We then stood to the north-east, close to a fresh land wind from the East-South-East, which brought with it a very unpleasant warmth.

As we approached Point Pearce, the land of which, at nine o'clock, came in sight, the water deepened to fifteen and eighteen fathoms.

At half-past ten o'clock we were within three miles of the point; when the wind died away, and from the ebbing tide we very soon lost what we had gained during the morning; for there was no anchoring ground fit to trust our only remaining anchor upon.