THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 



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CHAP. vir. 



Difcoveries after leavmg Cook's River. — IJla?td of St. Her- 

 mogenes. — Cape Tf^hitftwday. — Cape Greville. — Cape 

 Barnabas. — Tivo- headed Point. — Trinity If and. — Beer- 

 ifigs Foggy If and. — A beautiful bird defcribed, — Ko~ 

 diak and the Sc hum agin Ifands. — A Rujfun Letter 

 brought on board by a Native. — Conjectures about it. — 

 Rock Pcifit. — Halibut If and. — A Volcano Mou7itain. — 

 Providential Efcape. — Arrival of the Ships at Oona- 

 lafchka. — Intercourfe with the Natives there. — An^ 

 other Ruffian Letter. — Samganoodha Harbour defcribed. 



AS foon as the ebb tide made in our favour, we weighed, V'^- 

 O » June. 



and, with alight breeze, between Weft South Weft, and 'r — '— — ' 



Friday c. 



South South Weft, pHed down the river, till the flood obliged us 



to anchor again. At length, about one o'clock, next morning, a Saturday 6. 



frefh breeze fprung up at Weft, with which we got under fail, 



and, at eight, pafTed the Barren Iflands, and ftretched away 



for Cape St. Hermogenes. At noon, this Cape bore South 



South Eaft, eight leagues diftant; and the paflage between 



the ifland of that name, and the main land, bore South. 



For this paflage I fleered, intending to go tlirough it. 



But foon after the wind failed us ; and we had baffling 



light airs from the Eaftward ; fo that I gave up my de- 



fign of carrying the lliips between the Ifland and the 



main, 



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