An account of several late voyages and discoveries

towards tbe South Terra Incognita~ 131 '[)ecember they namcd Frederick Hendrick.r Bay : Thcy heard, as thcy thought, thc noifc ofMcn; but faw non~; they faw alfo two Trccs about rwo, or two anda h:ilf Fa:hom thick, and 60, or 6S Foot high below thc Br;.nchcs ; the B:irk of 1hefc Trccs w~is cut ,vith Flint, peded off in fornt of Steps, to help thc Inhabitants toclimb them., :nd take the Birds Ndl:s thcreon; thefe Stcps wcrc about 5 Foot a.fündcr, fo tha.t we muft ci... .1hcr concludc thcfe Pcoplc \'cry grca.t, or dfe that chcy havc fome unknown Trick to rnakc ufe of thc faid Steps for climbing thcfe Trccs. In thc onc Trcc thc Steps f cemcd fo frcfh a.nd green, as if ic bad not bccn four days fince thcy were cut; the noifc of Mcit, and the Play which they heard, was much like tha.t of a Jew.r-Themp, or little Gom, which was not far off; but they faw nobody. They faw thc footing of wild Beaíl:s; hlving Cla.ws likc a Tyger, and of othcr lkafi:s: rhey found alfo Gum of the Trccs, and Gum... Lac of thc Ground. Thc Ebb and Flood was herc about tl1rce Foot. Thc Trccs fiood not hick, nor incumbred with thick Bufhcs, or Un– erwood ; thcy faw likcwifc in fcvcral Places thc mo:ik of Firc. Hcrc they did nothing but only et up a Stake with thc Comp¿1nics Mark, and a iinccs Flag thcrcon; thcrc was hcrc 3 d. N. E. Jri:uion. Decem!nr 5. S. Lat. 41 d. 34 m. Long. 69 d. thcy wcnt ;tway E. from Amhony 'Van Di-– ien, Land, with purpofc to rnn away E. to the ngit. of 195 d. ro find thc Iílands of Solom~n. ecem!Jer 9. with S. Lat. 42 d. 37 m. Long. 176 , 1911,. N. E. variation 5 el. Decemb. 1 z. thcy K z had