The Run from New Zealand to Botany Bay, on the East Coast of New Holland, now called New South Wales; various Incidents that happened there; with fome Account of the Country and its Inha- Tranfactions while the Ship was refitting in Endeavour River: A Defcription of the adjacent Country, its Inhabitants, and Pro- CH A P. VI. Departure from New South Wales; a particular Defcription of the Country, its Products, and People: A Specimen of the Language, СНАР. Х. CHAP. XI. Our Arrival at the Cape of Good Hope; fome Remarks on the Run from Java Head to that Place; a Defcription of the Cape and of Saint Helena: With fome Account of the Hottentots, and the Return AN ΑΝ ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE round the WORLD. BOOK II. CHA P. VII. Range from Cape Turnagain fouthward along the eaftern Coast 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 February, having tacked, we ftood S. W. and continued to make fail to the fouthward till funfet 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 fea 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 pleasant appearance; but farther from the fea it rifes into hills. The land between Cape 5 1770. February. Sunday 11. Monday 12. Tuesday 13. Wednef. i4. 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. diftant eight leagues. In the afternoon, a fresh gale fprung up at N. E. and we steered S. W. by W. for the southermost land in fight, which at sunset bore from us S. 74 W. At this time the variation was 15° 4' E. L 2 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 seen as well from Cape Koamaroo as Cape Pallifer: from Koamaroo they are diftant 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. ༧ |