24 cook's SECOND VOYAGE JUNE, 



Lord Sandwich and Sir Hugh Palliser came down to 

 see them executed in such a manner as might effect- 

 ually answer the purpose intended. 



On the 22d of June the ship was again completed 

 for sea, when I sailed from Sheerness ; and on the 3d 

 of July, joined the Adventure in Plymouth Sound. 

 The evening before, we met, off the Sound, Lord Sand- 

 wich, in the Augusta yacht, ()vho was on his return 

 from visiting the several dock-yards,) with the Glory 

 frigate and Hazard sloop. We saluted his Lordship 

 with seventeen guns ; and soon after he and Sir 

 Hugh Palliser gave us the last mark of the very 

 great attention they had paid to this equipment, by 

 coming on board, to satisfy themselves that every 

 thing was done to my wish, and that the ship was 

 found to answer to my satisfaction. 



At Plymouth I received my instructions, dated 

 the 25th of June, directing me to take under my 

 command the Adventure ; to make the best of my 

 way to the island of Madeira, there to take in a sup- 

 ply of wine, and then proceed to the Cape of Good 

 Hope, where I was to refresh the ships' companies, 

 and take on board such provisions and necessaries 

 as I might stand in need of. After leaving the 

 Cape of Good Hope, I was to proceed to the 

 southward, and endeavour to fall in with Cape 

 Circumcision, which was said by Monsieur Bouvet 

 to lie in the latitude of ,54 south, and in about 11 

 %0' east longitude from Greenwich. If I disco- 

 vered this Cape, I was to satisfy myself whether it 

 was a part of the continent, which had so much en- 

 gaged the attention of geographers and former na- 

 vigators, or a part of an island. If it proved to be 

 the former, I was to employ myself diligently in ex- 

 ploring as great an extent of it as I could ; and to 

 make such notations thereon, and observations of 

 every kind, as might be useful either to navigation 

 or commerce, or tend to the promotion of natural 

 knowledge. I was also directed to observe the 

 genius, temper, /disposition, and number, of the in- 



