This Cape St.
George lies in the latitude of 5 degrees 5 minutes south; and meridian distance from Cape Mabo 1,290 miles.

The island off this cape I called St.George's Isle; and the bay between it and the west point I named St.
George's Bay.

[Note:--No Dutch drafts go so far as this cape by ten leagues.] On the 10th, in the evening, we got within a league of the westernmost land seen, which is pretty high and very woody, but no appearance of anchoring.

I stood off again, designing, if possible, to ply to and fro in this bay till I found a conveniency to wood and water.
We saw no more plantations nor cocoa-nut trees; yet in the night we discerned a small fire right against us.

The next morning we saw a burning mountain in the country.