74 COOK'S FIRST VOYAGE APRIL, 



and about eight leagues north of it there lies a point, 

 which, from the colour of the land about it, I called 

 Red Point : its latitude is 34 29', and longitude 

 208 45' W. To the north-west of Red Point, and 

 a little way inland, stands a round hill, the top of 

 which looks like the crown of a hat. In the after- 

 noon of this day we had a light bieeze at N. N. W. 

 till five in the evening, when it fell calm. At this 

 time, we were between three and four leagues from 

 the shore, and had forty-eight fathom water : the 

 variation by azimuth was 8 48' E. and the extremi- 

 ties of this land were from N. E. by N. to S. W. by S. 

 Before it was dark, we saw smoke in several places 

 along the shore, and a fire two or three times after- 

 wards. During the night we lay becalmed, driving 

 in before the sea till one in the morning, when we 

 got a breeze from the land, with which we steered 

 N. E., being then in thirty-eight fathom. At noon 

 it veered to N. E. by N., and we were then in latitude 

 34 10' $., longitude 208 27' W.: the land was dis- 

 tant about five leagues, and extended from S. 37 W. 

 to N. 1 E. In this latitude there are some w T hite 

 cliffs, which rise perpendicularly from the sea to a 

 considerable height. We stood off the shore till 

 two o'clock, and then tacked and stood in till six, 

 when we were within four or five miles of it, and at 

 that distance had fifty fathom water. The extremi- 

 ties of the land bore from S. 28 W. to N. -25 30' E. 

 We now tacked and stood of! till twelve, then tacked 

 and stood in again till four in the morning, when we 

 made a trip off till daylight ; and during all this 

 time we lost ground, owing to the variableness of 

 the winds. We continued at the distance of be- 

 tween four and five miles from the shore, till the 

 afternoon, when we came within two miles, and I 

 then hoisted out the pinnace and yawl to attempt a 

 landing, but the pinnace proved to be so leaky that 

 I was obliged to hoist her in again. At this time 

 we saw several of the natives walking briskly along 



