out of danger, but having a shoal just by us, and the wind failing again,
I ordered the boat to tow us, and by their help we got clear from it. We
had a strong tide setting to the westward.

At one o'clock, being past the shoal, and finding the tide setting to the
westward, I anchored in thirty-five fathom coarse sand, with small coral
and shells. Being nearest to Cockle Island, I immediately sent both the
boats thither, one to cut wood, and the other to fish. At four in the
afternoon, having a small breeze at south-south-west, I made a sign for
my boats to come on board. They brought some wood, and a few small
cockles, none of them exceeding ten pounds' weight, whereas the shell of
the great one weighed seventy-eight pounds; but it was now high water,
and therefore they could get no bigger. They also brought on board some
pigeons, of which we found plenty on all the islands where we touched in
these seas: also in many places we saw many large bats, but killed none,
except those I mentioned at Pub Sabuda. As our boats came aboard, we
weighed and made sail, steering east-south-east as long as the wind held.
In the morning we found we had got four or five leagues to the east of
the place where we weighed. We stood to and fro till eleven; and finding
that we lost ground, anchored in forty-two fathom coarse gravelly sand,
with some coral. This morning we thought we saw a sail.

In the afternoon I went ashore on a small woody island, about two leagues
from us. Here I found the greatest number of pigeons that ever I saw
either in the East or West Indies, and small cockles in the sea round the
island in such quantities that we might have laden the boat in an hour's
time. These were not above ten or twelve pounds' weight. We cut some
wood, and brought off cockles enough for all the ship's company; but
having no small shot, we could kill no pigeons. I returned about four
o'clock, and then my gunner and both mates went thither, and in less than