anchor-ground

Updated: May 6, 2025

When we went from hence, we coasted about 2 Leagues to the Southward, on the West side of Monmouth Island; and finding no Anchor-ground, we stood over to the Bashee Island, and came to an Anchor on the North East part of it, against a small sandy Bay, in 7 fathom clean hard Sand, and about a quarter of a Mile from the Shore.

- The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 39 of 55: Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the: Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of: The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books: and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial: and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their: Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of: the Nineteenth Century, Volume XXXIX: 1683-1690

We stood along by St. My design of seeing these islands as I passed along was to get wood and water, but could find no anchor-ground, and therefore could not do as I purposed. Besides, these islands are all so populous that I dared not send my boat ashore unless I could have anchored pretty nigh.

William Dampier - A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland, Etc. in the Year 1699