CHAPTER IV 
TERRA DEL FUEGO TO OTAHITE 
JAN. 21—Aprit 12, 1769 
Leave Terra del Fuego—Cape Horn—Albatross and other birds, ete.—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 
cabbage. 
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 Histowre des Navigat. aux terres australes, 
tom. i, p. 356). 
