Departure from New South Wales; a particular Defcription of the Country, its Products, and People: A Specimen of the Language, CHAP. X. CHA P. XIII. CHA P. XIV. 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 AN ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE round the WORLD. воок II. CHAP. VII. Range from Cape Turnagain fouthward along the eastern Coaft 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- 1770. February: to make fail to the fouthward till funset on the 11th, when Friday 9: Sunday 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: 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 coaft, 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, diftant 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 southermoft land in fight, which at funfet bore from us S. 74 W. At this time the variation was 15° 4' E. 1 ན་ 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 snowy 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 fhore, 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 feen at a much greater diftance. At noon this day, we were in latitude 42° 34'S. The fouthermoft land in fight bore S. W. W.; and some low land that appeared like an island, and lay clofe under the foot of the ridge, bore N. W. by N. about five or fix leagues. In the afternoon, when Mr. Banks was out in the boat a fhooting, we faw, with our glaffes, four double canoes, having on board fifty-feven men, put off from that fhore, and make towards him: we immediately made fignals for him to come on board; but the fhip, 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 ftopped, 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 difpofitions 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, feemed. to think us entirely unworthy of his notice; and fome, almost without invitation, had come on board with an air of: perfect confidence and good-will. From the behaviour of our last visitors, I give the land from which they had put 3. G aff;', VOL. III. 1770. February. Wednes. 14 |