However, Pencroft observed that the shore was more equal, that the ground rose, and he declared that it was joined by a long slope to a hill, whose massive front he thought that he could see looming indistinctly through the mist.

The birds were less numerous on this part of the shore; the sea was also less tumultuous, and they observed that the agitation of the waves was diminished.

The noise of the surf was scarcely heard.

This side of the promontory evidently formed a semicircular bay, which the sharp point sheltered from the breakers of the open sea.

But to follow this direction was to go south, exactly opposite to that part of the coast where Harding might have landed.