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We purfued our courfe to the Eallward, without meeting ^ »777- 



^ _ " February. 



with any thing worthy of note, till the night between the ■ ^--^ 



6th and 7th of February, when a marine belonging to the Friday 7. 

 Difcovery fell over-board, and was never feen afterward. 

 This was the fecond misfortune of the kind that had hap- 

 pened to Captain Gierke fince he left England. 



On the loth, at four in the afternoon, we difcovered the Monday 10. 

 land of New Zealand. The part we fliw proved to be Rock's 

 Point, and bore South Eaft by South, about eight or nine 

 leagues ditlant. During this run from Van Diemen's Land, 

 the wind, for the firft four or five days, was at North Eaft, 

 North, and North North Weft, and blew, for the moil: part, 

 a gentle breeze. It afterward veered to South Eaft, where 

 it remained tv^enty-four hours. It then came to Weft and 

 South Weft ; in which points it continued, with very little 

 deviation, till we reached New Zealand. 



After making the land, I fteered for Cape Farewell, which 

 at day-break, the next morning, bore South by Weft, diftant Tuefday n, 

 about four leagues. At eight o'clock, it bore South Weft by 

 South, about five leagues diftant; and, in this fituation, we 

 had forty-five fathoms water over a fandy bottom. In 

 rounding the Cape we had fifty fathoms, and the fame fore 

 of bottom. 



I now fteered for Stephens's Iftand, which we came up 

 with at nine o'clock at night; and at ten, next morning, an- y/edneC. 12. 

 chored in our old ftation, in Queen Charlotte's Sound *. 

 Unwilling to lofe any time, our operations commenced that 

 very afternoon, when we landed a number of empty water- 

 cafks, and began to clear a place where we might fet up 



* See Ae Chart of Qiieen Charlotte's Sound, in Ka\vk?f\y«rth's Collection, Vol. ii. 

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