Derde reys, gedaan voor de Engelsche Maatschappy na Oost-Indien, met drie scheepen, de Draak, Hector, en ...

land, but the skipper had discovered through his soundings on the roadstead that we were at 8 degrees, 36 minutes Northern latitude and that the point of Sierra Leone lay about four miles to the West of us. The skipper also noticed the variation magnetic deviation to be one degree and fifty minutes towards the North-East, but my equipment was damaged, and I had no time to repair it.

On the 14th of the same, in the morning, the wind turned completely to the East, but around eight o'clock it became still, so that we drifted Northward again and later with the ebb tide South-West by South, and anchored with the following flood tide in fifteen and a half fathoms of water, having Sierra Leone about seven miles to the North-East by East of us. That entire day, we had no less than ten fathoms of water.

On the 16th, we found the current to be going Northward by West.

And arrive at the roadstead of Saldania.

On the 17th of December, about two hours after noon, we saw the land, the Table of Saldania, quite clearly and stood to run towards it. I gave the skipper orders to steer towards the South-East by East to come around the Cape, but the sick and all the men requested to set for Saldania, which we did, and anchored at about nine o'clock on the roadstead of Saldania in six and a half fathoms of water, having the West point West-North-West, the island North-West by North, and the Sugarloaf South-West of us.

Description of that place,

The most Westerly corner of the land and the island of Pengwin Penguin Island lay on our South-Western side. About a mile from the island, to the South of it, is a shoal. Between the island and the beach is a space of seven miles. There lies another shoal half a mile on the South-Eastern side of the island.

As soon as I lay at anchor, I sent men ashore and found that the people here were bold but manageable. On a rock, we found here