I '(» COOK'l SECOND V0\ 101 SRPT. 



\ ieu of t lu* shoals before sunset We gained nothing 



by tins but the prosperl ol :i mm shewed with shoals, 



which we could not deaf but bji returning in the 

 track by which ^^ came. We tacked nearly in 

 the same place where we had tacked before, and on 

 lounding found n bottom <>t lim* Band. But anchor* 

 in- in i strong gale, with :i chain of breakers t»» 

 leeward, being the last resource, I rather chose to 

 spend the night in making short boards over that 

 space we had, in some measure, made ourselves ac 

 quainted with in the day. lind thus «t was spent; 

 i>ni under the terrible apprehension, ever) moment, 

 oi falling on some ol the many dangers which sur- 

 rounded us. 



Daylight showed that our fears were not ill- 

 founded, and that we had been in the most imminent 

 danger; having had breakers continual!) under our 

 lee, and at i verj little distance from us. We owed 

 .'in safetj to the interposition of Providence, >\ good 

 look-out, and the verj brisk manner in which the 

 ship \n .is managed; for, .is we were standing to the 

 north, tiic people on the lee gangway and forecastle 

 sum breakers under tin* lee»bow, which we escaped 

 b) quick!) tacking the ship. 



I was now almost tired of a coast which I could no 

 longei explore, but at the risk of losing the ship 

 and ruining the whole voyage. I was, however, de- 

 termined not to leave it, till l kney what trees those 

 were which had been the subject of our speculation , 

 especially as the) appeared to be of a sort useful w> 

 shipping, and had not been seen any where but in 

 the southern part of this land. With this view, after 

 making a trip to the south, to weather the shoals 

 undei out lee, we stood to the north, m hopes of 

 finding anchorage under some of the islets on which 

 these trees grew, We were stopped bj eight o'clock 

 i>\ the shoals which lie extended between the Isle of 

 Rnes and Queen Charlotte's Foreland; and found 

 sou n din its otf them in fiftv«tivc, forty, and thirty»six 



