store of Turkie nests and many Egges." They liked this place, but for shoal water the ships could not come near to land.

So on they went, eight miles up the river.
Here, upon the north side, thirty-odd miles from the mouth, they came to a certain peninsula, an island at high water.

Two or three miles long, less than a mile and a half in breadth, at its widest place composed of marsh and woodland, it ran into the river, into six fathom water, where the ships might be moored to the trees.

It was this convenient deep water that determined matters.

Here came to anchor the Susan Constant, the Goodspeed, and the Discovery.