In the morning the captain asked the pilot what was the position of the ship.

He replied that she was to leeward of the cape; and the captain told him to make sail that she might not make leeway.

The pilot answered that the sea was too high and against them, and that the bows driving into the water would cause her timbers to open, though he would do his best.

The narrator here remarks "that this was a great misfortune, owing to the captain being disabled by illness on this and other occasions when the pilots wasted time, obliging him to believe what they said, to take what they gave, measured out as they pleased." Finally, during this and the two following days, attempts were made to enter the bay.

The other vessels did not come out, the wind did not go down; while, owing to the force of this wind the ship, having little sail on, and her head E.N.E., lost ground to such an extent that they found themselves 20 leagues to leeward of the port, all looking at those high mountains with sorrow at not being able to get near them.
The island of _Virgen Maria_ was so hidden by mist that they could never get a sight of it.