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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. 
24th, Just turned the most westerly point,’ and stood 
into the mouth of the straits. 
26th. At night came to an anchor in a bay,’ in some 
part of which it is probable that Tasman anchored. 
30¢h. 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. 
? 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. 
