122 CAPTAIN COOK'S VOYAGES 



On the 26th, they steered and entered Dusky Bay, about 

 noon. In this bay they were all strangers ; in Captain 

 Cook's former voyage he only discovered and named it- 

 After running about two leagues up the bay, and passing 

 several of the isles which lay in it, they brought to, and 

 hoisted out two boats, one of which was sent away, with 

 an officer, to look for anchorage. This he found, and signi- 

 fied the same by signal. They then followed with the ship, 

 and anchored in fifty fathoms water, so near the shore as 

 to reach it with a hawser. They had now been one hundred 

 and seventeen days at sea, in which time they sailed 3660 

 leagues, without having once sight of land. 



After such a long continuance at sea, in a high southern 

 latitude, it is but reasonable to think that many of the 

 people must be ill of the scurvy. The contrary, however, 

 happened. Sweetwort had been given to such as were 

 scorbutic. This had so far the desired effect, that they 

 had only one man on board that could be called very ill of 

 this disease, occasioned, chiefly, by a bad habit of body, 

 and a complication of other disorders. 



Their first care, after the ship was moored, was to send 

 a boat and people fishing, in which they were very success- 

 ful, returning with fish sufficient for all hands for supper ; 

 and in a few hours in the morning they caught as many as 

 served for dinner. This gave them certain hopes of being 

 plentifully supplied with this article. Nor did the shores 

 and woods appear less destitute of wild fowl ; so that 

 they hoped to enjoy with ease what, in their situation, 

 might be called the luxuries of life. These circumstances 

 determined them to stay some time in this bay, in order to 

 examine it thoroughly, as no one had ever landed before on 

 any of the southern parts of this country. 



About one hundred yards from the stern was a fine stream 

 of fresh water. Thus situated, they began to clear places in 

 the woods, in order to set up the astronomer's observatory, 

 the forge, and tents for the different artificers. They also 

 began to brew beer from the branches or leaves of a tree, 

 which much resembles the American black spruce. 



The few sheep and goats they had left were not likely to 

 fare well, there being no grass here, but what was coarse and 

 harsh. It was expected, however, that they would devour 

 it with great greediness, but they were surprised to find that 

 they would not taste it. Upon examination, they found 

 their teeth loose, and many of them had every other 

 symptom of an inveterate sea scurvy. Out of four ewes and 

 two rams, which Captain Cook brought from the Cape, with 

 an intent to put ashore in this country, he had only been 

 able to preserve one of each ; and even these were in so 



