about 120 leagues.

So, the heats considered, we resolved to take harbour; besides, our
provisions were exhausted, and we had not many days' store left.
Accordingly, putting in for the shore early in the morning, as we usually
did once in three or four days for fresh water, we sat down and considered
whether we would go on or take up our standing there; but upon several
considerations, too long to repeat here, we did not like the place, so we
resolved to go on a few days longer.

After sailing on N.W. by N. with a fresh gale at S.E., about six days, we
found, at a great distance, a large promontory or cape of land, pushing out
a long way into the sea, and as we were exceeding fond of seeing what was
beyond the cape, we resolved to double it before we took into harbour, so
we kept on our way, the gale continuing, and yet it was four days more
before we reached the cape. But it is not possible to express the
discouragement and melancholy that seized us all when we came thither; for
when we made the headland of the cape, we were surprised to see the shore
fall away on the other side as much as it had advanced on this side, and a
great deal more; and that, in short, if we would venture over to the shore
of Africa, it must be from hence, for that if we went further, the breadth
of the sea still increased, and to what breadth it might increase we knew
not.

While we mused upon this discovery, we were surprised with very bad
weather, and especially violent rains, with thunder and lightning, most
unusually terrible to us. In this pickle we run for the shore, and getting
under the lee of the cape, run our frigates into a little creek, where we
saw the land overgrown with trees, and made all the haste possible to get
on shore, being exceeding wet, and fatigued with the heat, the thunder,