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1796         that "when the sun went down, if the wind and surf"
March       "did not abate, we would."
Sunday       As the sun disappeared
    27     behind the hills, a party of five or six ^ ^natives were coming towards us
from the other side. At that juncture, we had gotten the guns
in order; and having a little powder in one of them, I fired it off;
on which the party stopped short, and soon walked away; those
on the point too were all retired but Dilba, and he soon followed.
      We slept by turns till ten o'clock, and the moon being then
risen, – the weather clam, – and the water smooth, – we pulled out to-
-wards Saddle Point; not a little pleased to have escaped so
well. Perhaps we were considerably indebted, for the fear they
entertained of us, to an old red waistcoat which M ^r Baƒs wore,
and from which they took us to be soldiers, whom the natives
are particularly afraid of; and though we did not much ad-
-mire our new name "Soja", yet thought it best not to unde-
-ceive them.
Monday         Having paƒsed the point, we anchored about one in the
    28       morning, under the innermost of the northern islets; in
about five fathoms, stony bottom. We called these Martins Isles
after our young companion in the boat. The two northern ones
seem to be the rocks under water marked in captain Cooks chart;
and I suspect that the outer part of the islandΩ which lies off Sad-
-dle Point, is what the great navigator calls Red Point. Its
latitude is the same, and its distance from the point too
small for him to have distinguished form, when
many miles off the coast. It will, however, remain a doubt, as there
are