2.58 cook's second voyage dec. 



159 W W. and in the latitude of 66 0' S. Several 

 penguins were seen on some of the ice islands, and 

 a few antarctic peterels on the wing. 



We continued to stand to the north, with a fresh 

 gale at west, attended with thick snow showers till 

 eight o'clock in the evening, when the wind abated, 

 the sky began to clear up, and, at six o'clock in the 

 morning of the lGth, it fell calm. Four hours after, 

 it was succeeded by a breeze at north-east, with 

 which we stretched to the south-east, having thick 

 hazy weather, with snow showers, and all our rigging 

 coated with ice. In the evening, we attempted to 

 take some out of the sea, but were obliged to desist, 

 the sea running too high, and the pieces being so 

 large, that it was dangerous for the boat to come 

 near them. 



The next morning, being the 17th, we succeeded 

 better ; for falling in with a quantity of loose ice, we 

 hoisted out two boats, and by noon got on board as 

 much as we could manage. We then made sail for 

 the east, with a gentle breeze northerly, attended 

 with snow and sleet, which froze to the rigging as it 

 fell. At this time we were in the latitude of 64 41/ 

 S. longitude 155 44' W. The ice we took up proved 

 to be none of the best, being chiefly composed of 

 frozen snow, on which account it was porous, and had 

 imbibed a good deal of salt water ; but this drained 

 off after lying a while on deck, and the water then 

 yielded was fresh. We continued to stretch to the 

 east, with a piercing cold northerly wind, attended 

 with a thick fog, snow, and sleet, that decorated all 

 our rigging with icicles. We were hourly meeting 

 with some of the large ice islands, which in these 

 high latitudes render navigation so very dangerous : 

 at seven in the evening, falling in with a cluster of 

 them, we narrowly escaped running aboard of one, 

 and with difficulty wore clear of the others. We 

 stood back to the west till ten o'clock, at which 

 time the fog cleared away, and we resumed our 



