78 COOK S SECOND VOYAGE AUGUST, 



CHAP. VII. 



THE SURVEY OF THE ISLANDS CONTINUED, AND A MORE 

 PARTICULAR DESCRIPTION OF THEM. 



As soon as the boats were hoisted in, we made sail, 

 and stretched to the eastward, with a fresh gale at 

 S. E., in order to have a nearer view of Erronan, and 

 to see if there was any land in its neighbourhood. 

 We stood on till midnight, when, having passed the 

 island, we tacked, and spent the remainder of the 

 nio-ht making two boards. At sunrise on the 21st, 

 we stood to S. VV. in order to get to the south of 

 Tanna, and nearer to Annattom, to observe if any 

 more land lay in that direction ; for an extraordi- 

 nary clear morning had produced no discovery of any 

 to the east. At noon having observed in latitude 

 Q0° S3' 30", the situation of the lands around us was 

 as follows. Port Resolution bore 86° West, distant 

 six and a half leagues ; the island of Tanna extended 

 from S. 88° West, to N. 64° West ; Traitor's Head 

 N. 58° West, distant twenty leagues ; the island of 

 Erronan N. 86° East, distant five leagues ; and 

 Annattom from S. i E. to S i W. distant ten 

 leagues. We continued to stretch to the south till two 

 o'clock P. M. when, seeing no more land before us, 

 we bore up round the S. E. end of Tanna ; and, with 

 a fine gale at E. S. E. ran along the south coast at 

 one league from shore. It seemed a bold one, with- 

 out the guard of any rocks ; and the country full as 

 fertile as in the neighbourhood of the harbour, and 

 making a fine appearance. At six o'clock the high 

 land of Erromango appeared over the west end of 

 Tanna in the direction of N. 16° West; at eight 

 o'clock we were past the island, and steered N.N.W. 

 for Sandwich Island, in order to finish the survey * of 



* The word Survey is not here to be understood in its literal 

 sense. Surveying a place, according to my idea, is taking a geo- 

 metrical plan of it, in which every place is to have its true situation, 

 which cannot be done in a work of this nature. 



