198 cook's voyage to feb. 



covered the land of New Zealand. The part we saw 

 proved to be Rock's Point, and bore S. E. by S., 

 about eight or nine leagues distant. During this run 

 from Van Diemen's Land, the wind, for the first 

 four or five days, was at N. E., N., and N. N. W., 

 and blew, for the most part, a gentle breeze. It after- 

 ward veered to S. E., where it remained twenty-four 

 hours. It then came to W. and S. W.; in which 

 points it continued, with very little deviation, till we 

 reached New Zealand. 



After making the land, I steered for Cape Farewell, 

 which at day-break, the next morning, bore S. by W., 

 distant about four leagues. At eight o'clock, it 

 bore S. W. by S., about five leagues distant; and, in 

 this situation, we had forty-five fathoms' water over 

 a sandy bottom. In rounding the Cape we had fifty 

 fathoms, and the same sort of bottom. 



I now steered for Stephen's Island, which we came 

 up with at nine o'clock at night; and at ten, next 

 morning, anchored in our old station, in Queen Char- 

 lotte's Sound. # Unwilling to lose any time, our 

 operations commenced that very afternoon, when we 

 landed a number of empty water-casks, and began 

 to clear a place where we might set up the two 

 observatories, and tents for the reception of a guard, 

 and of such of our people whose business might make 

 it necessary for them to remain on shore. 



We had not been long at anchor before several 

 canoes, filled with natives, came along-side of the 

 ships; but very few of them would venture on board; 

 which appeared the more extraordinary, as I was well 

 known to them all. There was one man in particular 

 amongst them, whom I had treated with remarkable 

 kindness, during the whole of my stay when I was 

 last here. Yet now, neither professions of friendship, 



* See the chart of Queen Charlotte's Sound, in Hawkesworth's 

 Collection, vol. ii. p. 385^ 



