As we handed round the bay, two canoes, with three black gentlemen in each individual, put off, and paddled really hard to get in the vicinity of us. Bligh's west island, which seems in Three Hummocks, N.N.W. a rock N.W. This island we named Plumb Island, from its bearing an austere, astringent variety of fruit, resembling plumbs, but not match to take in.