At three in the afternoon, they bore away for the two Brothers, which at six bore north-west by north, distant seven leagues.

At eight, the ships lay to for the night.
6 August 1788 At five o'clock in the morning of Wednesday, August 6th, they made sail again to the north-west; and at eight discerned a rock which had exactly the appearance of a ship under sail, with her top-gallant sails flying.
So strongly were all the Alexander's people prepossessed with this imagination, that the private signal was made, under the supposition that it might be either the Boussole or Astrolabe, or one of the two transports which had parted from them on the coast of New South Wales.
Nor was the mistake detected till they approached it within three or four miles.

This rock bore from the Two Brothers south south-west, distant one league.
Between ten and eleven, some canoes were seen with Indians in them, who came close up to the ship without any visible apprehension.

Ropes were thrown to them over the stern, of which they took hold, and suffered the ship to tow them along; in this situation they willingly exchanged a kind of rings which they wore on their arms, small rings of bone, and beads of their own manufacture, for nails, beads, and other trifles, giving however a manifest preference to whatever was made of iron.

Gimlets were most acceptable, but they were also pleased with nails, and pieces of iron hoops.