62 cook's SECOND VOYAGE JAN. 



CHAP. III. 



SEQUEL OF THE SEARCH FOR A SOUTHERN CONTINENT BE- 

 TWEEN THE MERIDIAN OF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE AND 

 NEW ZEALAND ; WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE SEPARATION 

 OF THE TWO SHIPS, AND THE ARRIVAL OF THE RESOLU- 

 TION IN DUSKY BAY. 



After meeting with this ice, I did not think it was 

 at all prudent to persevere in getting farther to 

 the south, especially as the summer was already half 

 spent, and it would have taken up some time to 

 have got round the ice, even supposing it to have 

 been practicable, which, however, is doubtful. I 

 therefore came to a resolution to proceed directly in 

 search of the land lately discovered by the French. 

 And as the winds still continued at E. by S., I was 

 obliged to return to the north, over some part 

 of the sea I had already made myself acquainted 

 with, and for that reason wished to have avoided. 

 But this was not to be done ; as our course, made 

 good, was little better than north. In the night, 

 the wind increased to a strong gale, attended with 

 sleet and snow, and obliged us to double-reef our 

 top-sails. About noon the next day, the gale abated ; 

 so that we could bear all our reefs out ; but the wind 

 still remained in its old quarter. 



In the evening, being in the latitude of 64 12' 

 south, longitude 40 15' east, a bird called by us, in 

 my former voyage, Port Egmont hen, (on account 

 of the great plenty of them at Port Egmont, in Falk- 

 land isles,) came hovering several times over the ship, 



