VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
we had found to be the cafe ever fince we reached this 
coafl:. 
nth. and 12th. The wind variable, inclining to the 
fouthvvard and weftward, and ftill an unpleafant crofs 
troublefome fea. We faw a whale, feveral feals, and 
many large oceanous birds, which we frequently fired at, 
without their betraying the fmalleft fymptom of fear either 
at the report, or at the balls, which frequently dropped 
clofe to them. A conclufion may be drawn from hence, 
that they had never been harafled with fire arms before ; if 
they had, they would undoubtedly have fhown fome fear ; 
a fenfation they feemed to be totally unacquainted with. 
In all our firings we did not kill one of them. 
19th. In the evening we faw the land over Red Point, 
bearing W. by N. the extremes of the land from S. S. W. 
to N. We were then about three leagues from the fhore ; and 
finding it unlikely to get in that night, Captain Hunter 
made the fignal for the convoy to come within hail ; 
when he acquainted them, that the entrance into Botany Bay 
bore N. N. W. : adding, that for the night he intended to 
Aand off and on, and early in the morning make fail 
for the bay. 
20th. At 
