THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 549 



At eleven o'clock in the forenoon, we anchored in the '7'9- 



January. 



Bay (which is called by the natives Kar^kakoo^), in thirteen -^ — ^ — <* 

 fathoms water, ever a fandy bottom, and about a quarter 

 of a mile from the North Eaft fliore. In this fitu.ation, the 

 South point of the bay bore South by Weft ; and the North 

 point Weft half North. We moored with the ftieam-anchor 

 and cable, to the Northward, unbent the fails, and ftruck 

 yards and top-mafts. The fliips continued to be much 

 crowded with natives, and were furrounded by a multitude 

 of canoes. I had no where, in the courfe of my voyages, 

 feen fo numerous a body of people alTembled at one place. 

 For, befides thofe who had come off to us in canoes, all the 

 fhore of the bay was covered with fpedlators, and many 

 hundreds were fwimming round the fliips like flioals of 

 fifh. We could not but be ftruck with the Angularity of this 

 fcene ; and perhaps there were few on board who now la- 

 mented our having failed in our endeavours to find a 

 Northern pafl'age homeward, laft fummer. To this difap- 

 pointment we owed our having it in our power to revifit the 

 Sandivich IJlands, and to enrich our voyage with a difcovery 

 which, though the lafl, fcemcd, in many refpecfls, to be the 

 moft important that had hitherto been made by Europeans, 

 throughout the extent of the Pacific Ocean. 



[k^ Here Captain Cook's journal ends. The remaining tranfaSlions 

 of the voyage are related by Captain King, in the third Volume.'] 



END OF THE SECOND VOLUME. 



