lS6 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



eafterly of the illands of the Archipelago Bel 

 Efpiritu Santo, difcovered by Quiros in 1606*. 

 A little before noon we got fight of Annatom 

 bearing fouth-wefl by fouth, diftant five my- 

 riameters. 



At five o'clock in the afternoon we made the 

 jfland of Tannay whicli bore weft 16'^ north. 

 Columns of fmoke were ilTuing from its volcano, 

 and fpreading themfelves afar in the air, form- 

 ing clouds which at iirft rofe to a prodigious 



height J 



* To this duller of iHands Captain Cook has given the 

 r;amc of the Nenxj Hehrldes. The Tranflator thinks he cannot 

 do better than fubjoin the following extrad refpedling them, from 

 ihe fecond voyage of that great navigator. Vol, II, pagr 96. 

 *' The northern iflands of this Archipelago were firft dif- 

 " covered by Quiros in 1606, and, not without reafon, were 

 ** confidercd as part of the fouthern continent, which at that time, 

 *'* and until very lately, was fuppofed to cxift. They were next 

 " vifited by M.de Bougainville in 1768, who, bcfides land- 

 '* ing on the Iflc of Lepers, did no more than difcover that the 

 ** land was not connefled, but compofcd of ifiands, which he 

 *' called the Great Cycladcs. But as befides afcerraining the 

 " extent and fituationof thefe iflands, we added to them feveral 

 '* new ones which were not known before, and explored the 

 ** whole, 1 think we have obtained a right to name them, and 

 ' fhall in future diflinguifn them by the name ot the Av^u; He. 

 *' brides. They are fituated between the latitude of 14 29' 

 ** and 20 4' fouth, and between 166 41' and 171 2reaft 

 *' longitude (from the meridian at Greenwich), and extend an 

 " hundred and twenty-iive leagues in the dirertion of N. N. W, 

 " y W. and S. S. E. { E." 



