We found variation 1 degrees 2 minutes east.

In the afternoon I steered north-east by east for the islands that we saw.

At two o'clock I went and looked over the fore-yard, and saw two islands at much greater distance than the Turtle Islands are laid down in my drafts, one of them was a very high peaked mountain, cleft at top, and much like the Burning Island that we passed by, but bigger and higher; the other was a pretty long high flat island.

Now I was certain that these were not the Turtle Islands, and that they could be no other than the Bande Isles, yet we steered in to make them plainer.

At three o'clock we discovered another small flat island to the north-west of the others, and saw a great deal of smoke rise from the top of the high island.