6o A VOYAGE TO 



December Hemlfphcre, Cape' St. Louis *, terminated in a perpendicu- 

 lar rock of a confiderable height j and the right one (near 

 which is a detached rock) in a high indented point f. 

 From this point the coaft feemed to turn fliort round to. 

 the Southward ; for we could fee no land to the Weftward 

 of the dire(5lion in which it now bore to us, but the iflands. 

 we had obferved in the morning ; the moll Southerly | of 

 them lying nearly Weft from the point, about two or three. 

 leagues diftant. 



About the middle of the land there appeared to be an 

 inlet, for which we fleered ; but, on approaching, found it 

 was only a bending in the coaft, and therefore bore up, to 

 go round Cape St. Louis §. Soon after, land opened olF the 



* Hitherto, we have only had occafion to fupply defe£ls, owing to Captain Cook's 

 <t;ftV? ignorance of Kerguelen's fecond voyage in 1773; we muft now correct errors, 

 owing to his very limited knowledge of the operations of the firft voyage in 1772^ 

 The Chart of the Southern Hemifphere, his only guide, having given him, as he tells 

 us, the name of Cape St. Louis (or Cape Louis) as the moft Northerly promon- 

 tory then feen by the French ; and his own obfervations now fatisfying him that 

 no part of the main land flretched farther North than the left extreme now before him -^ 

 from this fuppofed fimilarity of fituation, he judged that his own perpendicular rock muft 

 be the Cape Louis of the firft difcoverers. By looking upon our Chart, we fliall find 

 Cape Louis lying upon a very di&rent part of the coaft ; and by comparing this Chart 

 with that lately publifhed by Kerguelen, it will appear, in the cleareft manner, that the- 

 Northern point now defcribed by Captain Cook, is the very fame to which the Frenclt 

 have given the name of Cape Francois. 



f Th\s right extre?ne oi the co?i^, as it now fhewed itfclf to Captain Cook, feems 

 to be what is reprefcnted on Kerguelen's Chart under the name of Cape Aubert. It 

 may be proper to obferve here, that all that extent of coaft lying between Cape 

 Louis and Cape Francois, of which the French faw very little during their firft vifit 

 in 1772, and may be called the North Weft fide of this land, they had it in their power 

 to trace the pofition of in 1773, and have afiigned names to feme of its bays, rivers, 

 and promontories, upon their Chart. 



X Kerguelen's Ifle de Clugny. 



§ Cape Francois, as already obferved, 



9 Cape, 



