4 COOK'S FIRST VOYAGE FEB. 



others bad immediately commenced hostilities, by 

 pelting us with stones : the gentleman whom we had 

 found alone, fishing in his boat, seemed to think us 

 entirely unworthy of his notice ; and some, almost 

 without invitation, had come on board with an air of 

 perfect confidence and good-will. From the behaviour 

 of our last visitors, I gave the land from which they 

 had put off, and which, as I have before observed, 

 had the appearance of an island, the name of 

 Lookers-on. 



At eight o'clock in the evening, a breeze sprung 

 up at S. S. W. with which I stretched off south-east, 

 because some on board thought thev saw land in that 

 quarter. In this course we continued till six o'clock 

 the next morning, when we had run eleven leagues, 

 but saw no land, except that which we had left. 

 Having stood to the S. E. with a light breeze, which 

 veered from the west to the north, till noon, our 

 latitude by observation was 4& Q 56' $., and the high 

 land that we were abreast of the preceding noon bore 

 N. N. W. W. In the afternoon we had a light 

 breeze at N. E. with which we steered west, edging 

 in for the land, which was distant about eight leagues. 

 At seven in the evening, we were about six leagues 

 from the shore, and the southermost extremity of the 

 land in sight bore W. S. W. 



At daybreak on the 16th, we discovered land bear- 

 ing S. by W. and seemingly detached from the coast 

 we were upon. About eight, a breeze sprung up, at 

 N. by E. and we steered directly for it. At noon, 

 we were in latitude 43 19' S. the peak on the snowy 

 mountain bore N. 20 E. distant twenty-seven leagues; 

 the southern extremity of the land we could see 

 bore west, and the land which had been discovered 

 in the morning appeared like an island extending 

 from S. S. W. to S. W. by W. i W. distant about eight 

 leagues. In the afternoon, we stood to the southward 

 of it, with a fresh breeze at north : at eight in the 

 evening, we had run eleven leagues, and the land then 



