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low swell still continuing ; our depth of water was 

 from sixty to seventy-five fathom. While we were 

 becalmed, Mr. Banks, being out in the boat, shot two 

 Port Egmont hens, which were in every respect the 

 same as those that are found in great numbers upon 

 the island of Faro, and were the first of the kind we 

 had seen upon this coast, though we fell in with some 

 a few davs before we made land, 



At daybreak, the wind freshened, and before noon 

 we had a strong gale at N. N. E. At eight in the 

 morning we saw the land extending as far as S. W. 

 by S. and steered directly for it. At noon, we were 

 in latitude 45 22' S. ; and the land, which now 

 stretched from S. W. \ S. to N. N. W. appeared to 

 be rudely diversified by hill and valley. In the after- 

 noon, we steered S. W. by S. and S. W. edging in for 

 the land with a fresh gale at north ; but though we 

 were at no great distance, the weather was so hazy 

 that we could see nothing distinctly upon it, except 

 a ridge of high hills lying not far from the sea, and 

 parallel to the coast, which in this place stretches S. 

 by W. and N. by E., and seemed to end in a high 

 bluff point to the southward. By eight in the even- 

 ing we were abreast of this point ; but it being then 

 dark, and I not knowing which way the land trended, 

 we brought to for the night. At this time, the point 

 bore west, and was distant about five miles : our 

 depth of water was thirty-seven fathom, and the bot- 

 tom consisted of small pebbles. 



At daybreak, having made sail, the point bore 

 north, distant three leagues, and we now found 

 that the land trended from it S. W. by W. as 

 far as we could see. This point I named Cape 

 Saunders, in honour of Sir Charles. Our lati- 

 tude was 45 35' S., and longitude 189 4' W. By 

 the latitude, and the angles that are made by the 

 coast, this point will be sufficiently known ; there is, 

 however, about three or four leagues to the south- 

 west of it, and very near the shore, a remarkable 



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