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have we seen any since we made this land, except the fire 

 on the 4th. 



18th. Immense quantities of snow newly fallen on the 

 hills were by noon plainly seen to begin to melt. 



21st. At night saw a phenomenon which I have but 

 seldom seen ; at sunset the flying clouds were of almost all 

 colours, among which green was very conspicuous, though 

 rather faint. 



24:th. Just turned the most westerly point, 1 and stood 

 into the mouth of the straits. 



26th. At night came to an anchor in a bay, 2 in some 

 part of which it is probable that Tasman anchored. 



30th. I examined the stones which lay on the beach: 

 they showed evident signs of mineral tendency, being full 

 of veins, but I had not the fortune to discover any ore of 

 metal (at least that I know to be so) in them. As the 

 place we lay in had no bare rocks in its neighbourhood, this 

 was the only method I had of even conjecturing. 



1 Cape Farewell. 



2 Admiralty Bay : Tasman anchored in Blind or Tasman's Bay, and the 

 massacre of three of his crew is supposed to have taken place in a small bay 

 on its north-west side. Wharton's Cook, p. 214, note. 



