In passing out we saw three water-serpents swimming about in the sea, of a yellow colour spotted with dark brown spots.

They were each about four foot long, and about the bigness of a man's wrist, and were the first I saw on this coast, which abounds with several sorts of them.

We had the winds at our first coming out at north, and the land lying north-easterly.

We plied off and on, getting forward but little till the next day, when the wind coming at south-south-west and south, we began to coast it along the shore on the northward, keeping at six or seven leagues off shore, and sounding often, we had between forty and forty-six fathom water, brown sand with some white shells.

This 15th of August we were in latitude 24 degrees 41 minutes.