1%2 cook's first voyage JUNEj 



ore, or other magnetical matter, contained under the 

 surface of the earth. 



We continued to steer W. N. W. as the land lay, 

 with twelve or fourteen fathom water, till noon on 

 the 6th, when our latitude by observation was 19 1' 

 S. and we had the mouth of a bay all open, extending 

 from S. E. to S. W. \ S. distant two leagues. This 

 bay, which I named Cleaveland Bay, appeared to 

 be about five or six miles in extent every way : the 

 east point I named Cape Cleaveland, and the west, 

 which had the appearance of an island, Magnetical 

 Isle, as we perceived that the compass did not 

 traverse well when we were near it : they are both 

 high, and so is the main land within them, the whole 

 forming a surface the most rugged, rocky, and bar- 

 ren of any we had seen upon the coast ; it was not 

 however without inhabitants, for we saw smoke in 

 several parts of the bottom of the bay. The norther- 

 most land that was in sight at this time, bore N. W., 

 and it had the appearance of an island, for we could 

 not trace the main land farther than W. by N. We 

 steered W. N. W. keeping the main land on board, 

 the outermost part of which, at sun-set, bore W. 

 by N. but without it lay high land, which we judged 

 not to be part of it. At day-break, we were abreast 

 of the eastern part of this land, which we found to 

 be a group of islands, lying about five leagues from 

 the main : at this time, being between the two 

 shores, we advanced slowly to the N. W. till noon, 

 when our latitude, by observation, was 18 49' S. and 

 our distance from the main about five leagues : the 

 north-west part of it bore from us N. by W. i W. 

 the islands extending from N. to E., and the nearest 

 being distant about two miles : Cape Cleaveland 

 bore S. 50 E. distant eighteen leagues. Our sound- 

 ings, in the course that we had sailed between this 

 time and the preceding noon, were from fourteen to 

 eleven fathom. 



In the afternoon, we saw several large columns 



