104 COOK S SECOND VOYAGE MAY, 



by calms, attended with continual rain, till the 4th, 

 in the afternoon, when, with the assistance of a 

 small breeze at S. W., we got the length of the reach 

 or passage leading to sea. The breeze then left 

 us, and we anchored under the east point, before a 

 sandy beach, in thirty fathoms' water ; but this an- 

 choring place hath nothing to recommend it like 

 the one we came from, which hath every thing in its 

 favour. 



In the night we had some very heavy squalls of 

 wind, attended with rain, hail, and snow, and some 

 thunder. Day-light exhibited to our view all the 

 hills and mountains covered with snow. At two 

 o'clock in the afternoon, a light breeze sprung up at 

 S. S. W., which, with the help of our boats, carried 

 us down the passage to our intended anchoring place, 

 where, at eight o'clock, we anchored in sixteen 

 fathoms' water, and moored, with a hawser to the 

 shore, under the first point on the starboard side, as 

 you come in from sea; from which we were covered 

 by the point. 



In the morning of the 6th, 1 sent Lieutenant 

 Pickersgill, accompanied by the two Mr. Forsters, 

 to explore the second arm which turns into the east, 

 myself being confined on board by a cold. At the 

 same time, I had every thing got up from between 

 decks, the decks well cleaned and well aired with 

 fires ; a thing that ought never to be long neglected 

 in wet moist weather. The fair weather which had 

 continued all this day, was succeeded in the night 

 by a storm from N. W., which blew in hard squalls, 

 attended with rain, and obliged us to strike top-gal- 

 lant and lower yards, and to carry out another hawser 

 to the shore. The bad weather continued the whole 

 day and the succeeding night, after which it fell calm 

 with fair weather. 



At seven in the morning, on the 8th, Mr. Pickers- 

 gill returned, together with his companions, in no 

 very good plight ; having been at the head of the 



