CHA P. V. Range from the Bay of Islands round North Cape to Queen Charlotte's Sound; and a Description of that Part of the Coaft. N Thursday the 7th of December, at noon, Cape Bret 1769. December. - observation, was 34° 59′ S.; foon after we made feveral ob- Thursday 7. fervations of the fun and moon, the refult of which made our longitude 185° 36′ W. The wind being against us, we had made but little way. In the afternoon, we stood in fhore, and fetched clofe under the Cavalles, from which iflands the main trends W. by N.: feveral canoes put off and followed us, but a light breeze springing up, I did not chufe to wait for them. I kept standing to the W. N. W. and N. W. till the next morning ten o'clock, when I tacked and stood Friday 8. in for the shore, from which we were about five leagues diftant. At noon, the weftermoft land in fight bore W. by S. and was about four leagues diftant. In the afternoon, wel had a gentle breeze to the west, which in the evening came to the fouth, and continuing fo all night, by day-light Saturday 9. brought us pretty well in with the land, feven leagues to the weftward of the Cavalles, where we found a deep bay running in S. W. by W. and W. S. W. the bottom of which we could but just see, and there the land appeared to be low and level. To this bay, which I called DOUBTLESS BAY, the entrance is formed by two points, which lie W. N. W. and E. S. E. and are five miles diftant from each other. The VOL. II. 3 B wind 1769. December, Saturday 9. wind not permitting us to look in here, we fteered for the weftermost land in fight, which bore from us W. N. W. about three leagues, but before we got the length of it it fell calm. While we lay becalmed, several canoes came off to us, but the people having heard of our guns, it was not without great difficulty that they were perfuaded to come under our ftern: after having bought fome of their cloaths, as well as their fish, we began to make enquiries concerning their country, and learnt, by the help of Tupia, that, at the dif tance of three days rowing in their canoes, at a place called MOORE-WHENNUA, the land would take a fhort turn to the fouthward, and from thence extend no more to the west. This place we concluded to be the land discovered by Tafman, which he called CAPE MARIA VAN DIEMEN, and finding these people fo intelligent, we inquired farther, if they knew of any country befides their own: they answered, that they never had visited any other, but that their ancestors hadtold them, that to the N. W.. by N. or N. N. W. there was a country of great extent, called ULIMAROA, to which fome: people had failed in a very large canoe; that only part of them returned, and reported, that after a passage of a month, they had feen a country where the people cat hogs. Tupia. then enquired whether thefe adventurers brought any hogs with them when they returned; they faid No: then, replied, Tupia, your story is certainly falfe, for it cannot be believed. that men who came back from an expedition without hogs, had ever vifited a country where hogs were to be procured.. It is however remarkable, notwithstanding the shrewdness of Tupia's objection, that when they mentioned hogs it was not by defcription but by name, calling them Booah, the name which is given them in the South-fea islands; but if the the animal had been wholly unknown to them, and they had had no communication with people to whom it was known, they could not poffibly have been acquainted with the name. 1769. December. Saturday 9. About ten o'clock at night, a breeze fprung up at W. N. W. with which we ftood off north; and at noon the next day, the Sunday 10. Cavalles bore S. E. by E. diftant eight leagues; the entrance of Doubtless Bay S. by W. diftant three leagues; and the north weft extremity of the land in fight, which we judged to be the main, bore N. W. by W.: our latitude by obfervation was 34° 44′ S. In the evening, we found the variation to be 12° 41′ E. by the azimuth, and 12° 40′ by the amplitude. Early in the morning, we stood in with the land, feven Monday 112 leagues to the weftward of Doubtlefs Bay, the bottom of which is not far distant from the bottom of another large bay, which the shore forms at this place, being feparated only by a low neck of land, which juts out into a peninsula that I have called KNUCKLE POINT. About the middle of this bay, which we called SANDY BAY, is a high mountain, standing upon a distant shore, to which I gave the name of MOUNT CAMEL. The latitude here is 34° 51' S. and longitude 186° 50'. We had twenty-four and twenty-five fathom water, with a good bottom; but there feems to be nothing in this bay that can induce a ship to put into it; for the land about it is utterly barren and defolate, and, except Mount Camel, the fituation is low: the foil appears to be nothing but white fand, thrown up in low irregular hills and narrow ridges, lying parallel with the fhore. But barren and defolate as this place is, it is not without inhabitants: we saw one village on the west fide of Mount Camel, and another on the east fide; we saw also five canoes full of people, who pulled after the ship, but could not come up with us. At 3 B 2 nine 1769. December. Monday 11. nine o'clock, we tacked and flood to the northward; and at noon, the Cavalles bore S. E. by E. diftant thirteen leagues; the north extremity of the land in fight, making like an ifland, bore N. W. N. diftant nine leagues; and Mount Camel bore S. W. by S. diftance fix leagues. 1 ན་ The wind being contrary, we kept plying northward till Tuesday 12. five o'clock in the evening of the 12th, when, having made very little way, we tacked and flood to the N. E. being two leagues to the northward of Mount Camel, and about a mile and a half from the fhore, in which fituation we had two and twenty fathom water. Wednef. 13. At ten, it began to blow and rain, which brought us under double reefed topfails; at twelve, we tacked and stood to the weftward till feven the next morning, when we tacked and flood again to the N. E. being about a mile to windward of the place where we tacked laft night. Soon after it blew very hard at N. N. W. with heavy fqualls and much rain, which brought us under our courfes, and split the maintopfail; fo that we were obliged to unbend it and bend another: at ten, it became more moderate, and we fet the topfails, double reefed: at noon, having strong gales and heavy weather, we tacked and flood to the weftward, and had no land in fight for the first time since we had been upon this coaft. We had now ftrong gales at W. and W. S. W.; and at half an hour past three we tacked and ftood to the northward. Soon after, a fmall ifland lying off Knuckle Point bore S. W. distant half a league. In the evening, having fplit the fore and mizen topfails, we brought the fhip under her courfes; and at midnight, we wore, and stood to the fouthward till Thursday 14. five in the morning; when we tacked and flood to the N. W. and faw land bearing fouth, at the diftance of eight or nine. 1769. December. Thursday 14 leagues; by this we discovered that we had fallen much to the leeward fince yesterday morning. At noon, our latitude by observation was 34° 6' S.; and the fame land which we had feen before to the N. W. now bore S. W. and appeared to be the northern extremity of the country. We had a large fwell rolling in from the weftward, and therefore concluded that we were not covered by any land in that quarter. At eight in the evening, we tacked and flood to the weftward, with as much fail as we could bear; and at noon the next Friday 15. day, we were in latitude 34° 10', longitude 185° 45′ W. and by estimation about seventeen leagues from the land, notwithstanding our utmost endeavours to keep in with it.. On the 16th, at fix in the morning, we faw land from the Saturday 16. maft-head, bearing S. S.W.; and at noon it bore S. by W. diftant fourteen leagues: while we were ftanding in for the fhore we founded feveral times, but had no ground with ninety fathom. At eight, we tacked in a hundred and eight fathom, at about three or four miles from the fhore, which was the fame point of land that we had to the N. W. before we were blown off. At noon it bore S. W. diftant about three miles; Mount Camel böre S. by E. diftant about elevenleagues, and the westermost land in fight bore S. 75 W.; the latitude by obfervation was 34° 20′ S. At four o'clock, we tacked and stood in fhore, in doing which, we met with a ftrong rippling, and the fhip fell faft to leeward, which we imputed to a current fetting eaft. At eight, we tacked and flood off till eight the next morning; when we tacked and Sunday 17.flood in, being about ten leagues from the land: at noon, the point of land which we were near the day before, bore S.S.W. diftant five leagues. The wind still continued at weft; and at feven o'clock, we tacked in thirty-five fathom, when the point of land which has been mentioned before, bore N. W.. by N. diftant four or five miles; fo that we had not gained. one |