We ran to the westward of four mountainous islands, and in the night had a small tornado, which brought with it some rain and a fair wind.

We had fair weather for a long time, only when near any land we had some tornadoes; but off, at sea, commonly clear weather, though, if in sight of land, we usually saw many black clouds hovering about it.
On the 5th and 6th of January we plied to get in with the land, designing to anchor, fill water, and spend a little time in searching the country, till after the change of the moon, for I found a strong current setting against us.

We anchored in thirty-eight fathom water, good oozy ground.
We had an island of a league long without us, about three miles distant, and we rode from the main about a mile.

The easternmost point of land seen bore east-by-south half-south, distance three leagues, and the westernmost west-south-west half-south, distance two leagues.

So soon as we anchored, we sent the pinnace to look for water and try if they could catch any fish.