570 cook's first voyage JAN. 



extended from N. to E. at the distance of five or six 

 leagues ; and in two places, a flat gave it the ap- 

 pearance of a bay or inlet. The course that we made 

 good the last four-and-twenty hours was S. 33 E. 

 fifty-three miles ; Cape Maria bearing N. 25 W., dis- 

 tant thirty leagues. 



We sailed within sight of land all this day, with 

 gentle gales between th"e N. E. and N. W. ; and by the 

 next noon had sailed sixty-nine miles, in the direction 

 of S. 37 E. ; our latitude by observation was 36^ 39' S. 

 The land which on the 4th we had taken for a bay, 

 now bore N. E. by N., distant five leagues and a half; 

 and Cape Maria N. ^9 W., forty-seven leagues. 



On the 9th, we continued a south-east course till 

 eight o'clock in the evening, having run seven leagues 

 since noon, with the wind at N. N. E. and N., and 

 being within three or four leagues of the land, which 

 appeared to be low and sandy. I then steered S. E. 

 by S. in a direction parallel with the coast, having 

 from forty-eight to thirty-four fathom water, with a 

 black sandy bottom. At day-break the next morn- 

 ing, we found ourselves between two and three leagues 

 from the land, which began to have a better appear- 

 ance, rising in gentle slopes, and being covered with 

 trees and herbage. We saw a smoke and a few 

 houses, but it appeared to be but thinly inhabited. 

 At seven o'clock, we steered S. by E., and afterwards 

 S. by W., the land lying in that direction. At nine, we 

 were a-breast of a point which rises with an easy ascent 

 from the sea to a considerable height: this point, 

 which lies in latitude 37° 43', I named Woody Head. 

 About eleven miles from this Head, in the direction 

 of S. W. i W. lies a very small island, upon which we 

 saw a great number of gannets, and which we, there- 

 fore, called G annex Island. At noon, a high craggy 

 point bore E. N. E. distant about a league and a half, 

 to which I gave the name of Albatross Point : it lies 

 in latitude 38° 4' S., longitude 184° 42' W. ; and is 

 distant seven leagues in the direction of S. J7 W. 



