38^ cook's first voyage jan. 



smell. Mr. Banks purchased one of them, but they 

 sold it with great reluctance, and could not by any 

 means be prevailed upon to part with a second; pro- 

 bably they may be preserved as trophies, like the 

 scalps in America, and the jaw-bones in the islands 

 of the South Seas. Upon examining the head which 

 had been bought by Mr. Banks, we perceived that it 

 had received a blow upon the temples, which had 

 fractured the skull. This day we made another ex- 

 cursion in the pinnace, to survey the bay, but we 

 found no flat large enough for a potatoe garden, nor 

 could we discover the least appearance of cultivation: 

 we met not a single Indian, but found an excellent 

 harbour; and about eight o'clock in the evening re- 

 turned on board the ship. 



On the 21st, Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander went a 

 fishing with hook and line, and caught an immense 

 quantity every where upon the rocks, in between 

 four and five fathom water: the seine was hauled 

 every night, and seldom failed to supply the whole 

 ship's company with as much fish as they could eat. 

 This day all the people had leave to go on shore at 

 the watering-place, and divert themselves as they 

 should think proper. 



In the morning of the 22d, I set out again in the 

 pinnace, accompanied by Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander, 

 with a design to examine the head of the inlet, but, 

 after rowing about four or five leagues without so 

 much as coming in sight of it, the wind being con- 

 trary, and the day half spent, we went on shore on 

 the south-east side, to try what might be discovered 

 from the hills. 



Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander immediately employed 

 themselves in botanizing near the beach, and I, taking 

 a seaman with me, ascended one of the hills: when 

 I reached the summit, I found a view of the inlet 

 intercepted by hills, which in that direction rose still 

 higher, and which were rendered inaccessible by im- 

 penetrable woods i I was, however, abundantly com- 



