CHAPTEE IV 



TERRA DEL FUEGO TO OTAHITE 

 JAN. 21 APRIL 12, 1769 



Leave Terra del Fuego Cape Horn Albatross and other birds, etc. Multi- 

 plication of Dagysa Cuttlefish Cross the line drawn by the Royal 

 Society between the South Sea and the Pacific Ocean Tropic birds 

 Occultation of Saturn Freshness of the water taken on board at Terra 

 del Fuego Speculations respecting a southern continent Marine animals 

 Suicide of a marine Scurvy Lemon juice Lagoon Island King 

 George III. Island Means adopted for preventing the scurvy Preserved 



21st January 1769. Sailed this morning, the wind 

 foul; but our keeping-boxes being full of new plants, we 

 little regarded any wind, provided it was but moderate 

 enough to let the draughtsmen work, who, to do them 

 justice, are now so used to the sea that it must blow a gale 

 of wind before they leave off. 



25th. Wind to-day north-west ; stood in with some 

 large islands, but we could not tell for certain whether 

 we saw any part of the mainland. At some distance the 

 land formed a bluff head, within which another appeared, 

 though but faintly, farther to the southward. Possibly 

 that might be Cape Horn, but a fog which overcast it almost 

 immediately after we saw it, hindered our making any 

 material observations upon it ; so that all we can say is, 

 that it was the southernmost land we saw, and does not 

 answer badly to the description of Cape Horn given by the 

 French, who place it upon an island, and say that it is two 

 bluff headlands (vide Histoire des Navigat. aux terres australes, 

 torn. i. p. 356). 



