THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 6r 



Cape, in the direaion of South ss" Eaft, and appeared to be a j^^J^Te.^^^ 

 point at a confiderable diftauce ; for the trending of the coaft -^ — ,/— » 

 from the Cape was more Southerly. We alfo faw feveral 

 rocks and iflands to the Eaftward of the above dire(5lions, 

 the moft diftant of which was about feven leagues from the 

 Cape, bearing South 88° Eaft *. 



We had no fooner got off the Cape, than we obferved the 

 coaft, to the Southward, to be much indented by projecfling 

 points and bays ; fo that we now made fure of foon finding 

 a good harbour. Accordingly, we had not run a mile far- 

 ther, before we difcovered one behind the Cape, into which 

 we began to ply ; but after making one board, it fell calm, 

 and we anchored at the entrance in forty-five fathoms wa- 

 ter, the bottom black fand ; as did the Difcovery fOon after. 

 I immediately difpatched Mr. Bligh, the Mafter, in a boat 

 to found the harbour; who, on his return, reported it to be 

 fafe and commodious, with good anchorage in every part; 

 and great plenty of frefli water, fcals, penguins, and other 

 birds on the fhorc; but not a flick of wood. While we lay 

 at anchor, we obferved that the flood tide came from the 

 South Eaft, running two knots, at leaft, in an hour. 



At day-break, in the morning of the 25th, we weighed Wednef. 25. 

 with a gentle breeze at Weft ; and having wrought into the 

 harbour, to within a quarter of a mile of the fandy beach at 

 its head, we anchored in eight fathoms water, the bottom 

 a fine dark fand. The Difcovery did not get in till two 

 o'clock in the afternoon; when Captain Clerke informed ^ 

 me, that he had narrowly efcaped being driven on the South 



* The obfervations of the French, round Cape Francois, remarkably coincide 

 with Captain Cook's in this paragraph ; and the rocks and iflands here mentioned by 

 him, alfo appear upon their Chart. 



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