130 cook's SECOND VOYAGE APRIL, 



5th, Stephens' Island bearing S. W. by W. four 

 leagues, we were taken a-back with a strong easterly 

 gale, which obliged us to haul our wind to the S. E. 

 and work to windward up under Point Jackson. 

 The course from Stephens' Island to Point Jackson is 

 nearly S. E. by the compass, eleven leagues distant, 

 depth of water from forty to thirty-two fathoms, 

 sandy ground. As we stood off and on, we fired 

 several guns, but saw no signs of any inhabitants. 

 In the afternoon, at half past two o'clock, finding 

 the tide set the ship to the westward, we anchored 

 with the coasting anchor in thirty-nine fathoms' 

 water, muddy ground ; Point Jackson S. E. - E. 

 three leagues ; the east point of an inlet (about four 

 leagues to the westward of Point Jackson, and which 

 appears to be a good harbour) S. W. by W. i W. At 

 eight P. M. the tide slackening, we weighed and 

 made sail (having while at anchor caught several fish 

 with hook and line), and found the tide to run to the 

 westward at the rate of two and a half knots per 

 hour. Standing to the east, we found no ground at 

 seventy fathoms, off Point Jackson N. N. W. two 

 leagues. At eight the next morning, had the sound 

 open, but the wind being down it, obliged us to 

 work up under the western shore, as the tide sets up 

 strong there, when it runs down in mid channel. At 

 ten, the tide being done, was obliged to come to with 

 the best bower in thirty-eight fathoms, close to some 

 white rocks, Point Jackson bearing N. W. $ N. the 

 northermost of the Brothers E. by S. and the middle 

 of Entry Island, (which lies on the north side of the 

 Straits,) N. E. We made 15 30' E. variation in the 

 Straits. As we sailed up the sound, we saw the tops 

 of high mountains covered with snow, which remains 

 all the year. When the tide slackened, we weighed 

 and sailed up the sound ; and about five o'clock on 

 the 7th, anchored in Ship Cove, in ten fathoms' water, 

 muddy ground, and moored the best bower to the 

 N. N. E. and small to S. S. W. In the night, we 



