Range from Cape Turnagain fouthward along the eaftern Goaft of Poenammoo, round Cape South, and back to the western Entrance of Cook's Streight, which completed the Circumnavigation of this Country; with a Description of the Coaft, and of Admiralty Bay: The Departure from New Zealand, and various Particulars. A T four o'clock in the afternoon of Friday the 9th of Fe-bruary, having tacked, we flood S. W. and continued to make fail to the fouthward till sunset on the 11th, when a fresh breeze at N. E. had carried us back again the length of Cape Pallifer, of which as the weather was clear we had a good view. Between the foot of the high land and the sea there is a low flat border, off which there are fome rocks that appear above water. Between this Cape and Cape Turnagain, the land near the shore is, in many places, low and flat, and has a green and pleafant appearance; but farther from the fea it rifes into hills. The land between 5 Cape 1770. February. Friday 9. 1770. February. Sunday 11. Monday 12. Tuesday 13. Wednef. 14. Cape Pallifer and Cape Tierawitte is high and makes in table-points; it also seemed to us to form two bays, but we were at too great a distance from this part of the coast, to judge accurately from appearances. The wind having been variable, with calms, we had advanced no farther by the 12th at noon than latitude 41° 52', Cape Pallifer then bearing north, distant about five leagues; and the fnowy mountain S. 83 W. At noon on the 13th, we found ourselves in the latitude of 42° 2 S.; Cape Pallifer bearing N. 20 E. distant eight leagues. In the afternoon, a fresh gale sprung up at N. E. and we fteered S. W. by W. for the fouthermost land in fight, which at sunset bore from us S. 74 W. At this time the variation was 15° 4′ E. L 2 14 At eight o'clock in the morning of the 14th, having run one and twenty leagues S. 58 W. fince the preceding noon, it fell calm. We were then abreast of the fnowy mountain which bore from us N. W. and in this direction lay behind a mountainous ridge of nearly the fame height, which rises directly from the fea, and runs parallel with the shore, which lies N. E. N. and S. W. S. The north west end of the ridge rifes inland, not far from Cape Campbell; and both the mountain and the ridge are diftinctly feen as well from Cape Koamaroo as Cape Pallifer: from Koamaroo they are distant two and twenty leagues S. W. S.; and from Cape Pallifer thirty leagues W. S. W.; and are of a height fufficient to be seen at a much greater distance. At noon this day, we were in latitude 42° 34′ S. The fouthermost land in fight bore S. W. W.; and fome low land that appeared like an island, and lay close under the foot of the ridge, bore N. W. by N. about five or fix leagues. 1 2 Wednef. 14. In the afternoon, when Mr. Banks was out in the boat a 1770. February. shooting, we faw, with our glaffes, four double canoes, having on board fifty-seven men, put off from that shore, and make towards him: we immediately made signals for him to come on board; but the ship, with respect to him, being right in the wake of the fun, he did not see them. We were at a confiderable distance from the fhore, and he was at a confiderable distance from the ship, which was between him and the shore; fo that, it being a dead calm, I began to be in fome pain for him, fearing that he might not fee the canoes time enough to reach the ship before they should get up with him: foon after, however, we faw his boat in motion, and had the pleasure to take him on board before the Indians came up, who probably had not feen him, as their attention feemed to be wholly fixed upon the fhip. They came within about a stone's caft, and then stopped, gazing at us with a look of vacant astonishment: Tupia exerted all his eloquence to prevail upon them to come nearer, but without any effect. After furveying us for fome time, they left us, and made towards the shore; but had not measured more than half the distance between that and the ship before it was dark. We imagined that these people had heard nothing of us, and could not but remark the different behaviour and dispositions of the inhabitants of the different parts of this coaft upon their first approaching the vessel. These kept aloof with a mixture of timidity and wonder; others had immediately commenced hoftilities, by pelting us with ftones: the gentleman whom we had found alone, fishing in his boat, seemed to think us entirely unworthy of his notice; and fome, almoft without invitation, had come on board with an air of perfect confidence and good-will. From the behaviour of our last visitors, I gave the land from which they had put off, VOL. III. B 1770. February. Wednef. 14. off, and which, as I have before observed, had the appearance of an ifland, the name of LOOKERS-On.. At eight o'clock in the evening, a breeze fprung up at S. S. W. with which I ftretched off fouth east, because some on. board thought they faw land in that quarter. In this courfe Thursday 15. we continued till fix o'clock the next morning, when we had run eleven leagues, but faw no land, except that which we: had left. Having stood to the S. E. with a light breeze, which veered from the weft to the north, till noon, our latitude by obfervation was 42° 56′ S. and the high land that we were abreast of the preceding noon bore N. N. W. 1⁄2 W. In the afternoon we had a light breeze at N. E. with which we fteered weft, edging in for the land, which was distant about eight leagues. At feven in the evening, we were about fix. leagues from the fhore, and the fouthermoft extremity of the land in fight bore W. S.W. Friday 16. 2 At day-break on the 16th, we discovered land bearing S. by W. and seemingly detached from the coast we were upon. About eight, a breeze fprung up, at N. by E. and we fteered directly for it. At noon, we were in latitude 43° 19' S. the peak on the fnowy mountain bore N. 20 E. distant: twenty-feven leagues; the fouthern extremity of the land we could fee bore weft, and the land which had been difcovered in the morning appeared like an island extending from: S.S.W. to S. W. by W. W. diftant about eight leagues. In. the afternoon, we ftood to the fouthward of it, with a fresh breeze at north: at eight in the evening, we had run eleven leagues, and the land then extended from S. W. by W. to N. by W. We were then distant about three or four leagues from the nearest shore, and in this fituation had fifty fathom water, with a fine fandy bottom. The variation of the compafs by this morning's amplitude was 14° 39′ E. ༧་ At fun-rife, the next morning, our opinion that the land we had been standing for was an island, was confirmed, by our feeing part of the land of Tovy Poenammoo open to the weftward of it, extending as far as W. by S. At eight in the morning, the extremes of the island bore N. 76 W. and N. N. E. † E.; and an opening near the fouth point, which had the appearance of a bay or harbour, N. 20 W. diftant between three and four leagues: in this fituation we had thirtyeight fathom water with a brown fandy bottom. 1770. February. Saturday 17. Illand, This island, which Inamed after Mr. Banks, lies about five Banks's leagues from the coast of Tovy Poenammoo; the fouth point bears S. 21 W. from the highest peak on the fnowy mountain, and lies in latitude 43° 32′ S. and in longitude. 186° 30′ W. by an observation of the fun and moon which was made this morning: it is of a circular figure, and about twenty-four leagues in compafs: it is fufficiently high to be feen at the distance of twelve or fifteen leagues, and the land has a broken irregular furface, with the appearance rather of barrenness than fertility; yet it was inhabited, for we faw smoke in one place, and a few ftraggling natives in another. When this island was firft difcovered in the direction of S. by W. fome perfons on board were of opinion that they alfo faw land bearing S. S. E. and S. E. by E. I was myself upon the deck at the time, and told them, that in my opinion. it was no more than a cloud, and that as the fun rose it would diffipate and vanish. However, as I was determined to leave no fubject for difputation which experiment could remove, I ordered the fhip to be wore, and fteered E. S. E. by compafs, in the direction which the land was faid to bear from us at that time. At noon we were in latitude 44° 7′ S.; the fouth point of Banks's Island bearing north, distant five leagues. B 2 |