By Mr Wales with Dollond’s 3 1/2 foot
  achromatic refractor, at 3h 28’ 39” 1/4 \
By Mr Clerke with Bird’s 2 feet |Appa-
   reflector, at 3 28 52 1/4 |rent
And by me with an 18 inch reflector |time.
   made by Watkins, 3 28 53 1/4 /
Latitude of the isle or place
  of observation, 20 deg. 17’ 39” S.
Longitude per distance of the sun and moon,
  and moon and stars, 48 sets, 164 deg. 41’ 21” East. 
Ditto per watch 163 58 0

Mr Wales measured the quantity eclipsed by a Hadley’s quadrant, a method never before thought of.  I am of opinion it answers the purpose of a micrometer to a great degree of certainty, and is a great addition to the use of this most valuable instrument.  After all was over, we returned on board, where I found Teabooma the chief, who soon after slipped out of the ship without my knowledge, and by that means lost the present I had made up for him.

In the evening I went ashore to the watering-place, which was at the head of a little creek, at a fine stream that came from the hills.  It was necessary to have a small boat in the creek to convey the casks from and to the beach over which they were rolled, and then put into the launch; as only a small boat could enter the creek, and that only at high water.  Excellent wood for fuel was here far more convenient than water, but this was an article we did not want.  About seven o’clock this evening, died Simon Monk, our butcher, a man much esteemed in the ship; his death being occasioned by a fall down the fore-hatch-way the preceding night.

Early in the morning of the 7th, the watering-party, and a guard, under the command of an officer, were sent ashore; and soon after a party of us went to take a view of the country.  As soon as we landed we made known our design to the natives, and two of them undertaking to be our guides, conducted us up the hills by a tolerably good path.  In our route, we met several people, most or whom turned back with us; so that at last our train was numerous.  Some we met who wanted us to return; but we paid no regard to their signs, nor did they seem uneasy when we proceeded.  At length we reached the summit of one of the hills, from which we saw the sea in two places, between some advanced hills, on the opposite or S.W. side of the land.  This was an useful discovery, as it enabled us to judge of the breadth of the land, which, in this part, did not exceed ten leagues.