1796                             (5)
March           as far to the northward as we [missing]
Friday 25       the wind had freshened so as to [missing]
the surges break white, and any one of them would [missing]
-ly swamped our nine feet bark, had her broadside {been ex-}
-posed to it.
At sunset, the wind died away. Our distance from the shore
being then about four miles, we pulled in for a bending in the
coast, and came to an anchor (with a large stone) about eight o'
-clock; having, by supposition, run at least fifteen miles since
first steering in for the land. The great similitude which the south
head of this bending in the coast, had to the roof of a barn, as
well as we could distinguish by moon light, induced us to call
it Barn Cove; but it falls back so little from the general trend-
-ing of the coast, that it scarcely deserves the name of a cove.
It has a beach, but being open to the eastward, whence the wind
had blown in the afternoon, there was too much surf upon it
to attempt a landing; therefore, after making a miserable sup-
-per and drinking a melon, we prepared to paƒs the night as
well as three people may be supposed to do in so small a space
in the bottom of Tom Thumb.
Saturday       At day break, the weather was fine, and without
    26             wind; but landing in Barn Cove was still imprac-
ticable. To the northward, the land was high for many miles,
and afforded but little prospect of landing to procure fresh
water, which was now become absolutely neceƒsary; but to the
southward