Bodmer executed a watercolor of Cape Lands End at sunset on the evening of May 23 . By the morning of the following day, England's southwestern coast appeared only dimly in the distance.

The Janus passed Cape Hart or Hart Point, England, around eleven o'clock on the morning of May 22. Between four and five in the afternoon, Bodmer made a sketch of the English coastline off Dodbrook near a large promontory known as Bold Head.