2 COOK’s VOYA G,E 
diftant two and twenty leagues S. W. £• S. ; and from Cape 
Pallifer thirty leagues W. S. W. ; and are" of a height fuffi- 
cient to be feen at a much greater diftance. At noon this day, 
we were in latitude 42 : 34 S. .The fcSuthermoft land in fight 
bore S. W. | Wi ; and fome low land that appeared like an 
Ifland, and lay clofe under the foot of the ridge, bore N. W. 
by N. about five or fix leagues/ 
In the afternoon j when Mr.. Banks was out in the boat a 
Ihooting, vve faw,' 'with our glades, four double canoes, having 
on board fifty-fevc-n men, put off from that fhore, and make 
towards him : vve immediately made fignals for him to come 
on board ; but the fhip, with refpeft to him, being right in 
the wake of the fun, he did not fee them. We were at a con- 
fiderable diffance from the fhore, and he was at a confider- 
able diftance from the fhip, which was between him and the 
fhore ; fo that, it being a dead calm, I began to be in fome 
pain for him, fearing that he might not fee the canoes time 
enough to reach the fhip before they fhould get up with him : 
foon after, however, we faw his boat in motion, and had the 
pleafure to take him on board before the Indians ,came up, 
who probably had not feen him, as their attention, feemed to 
be wholly fixed upon the fhip. They came within' about a 
flor.e’s call, and then flopped, gazing at us with a look of va- 
cant aftonifhment : Tupia exerted all his eloquence to prevail 
upon them to come nearer, but without any effeft. After fur- 
veying us for fome time, they left us, and made . towards the 
fhore; but had not meafured more than half the diftance be- 
tween that and the fhip before it was dark. We imagined 
that thefe people had heard nothing of us, and could not but 
remark the different behaviour and difipofiticns of the inhabi- 
tants of the different parts of this ccaft upon their firft ap- 
proaching the veffel. Thefe kept aloof with a mixture of ti- 
midity and wonder ; others had immediately commenced hof- 
' tilities, 'by pelting us with" ftones .• the gentleman whom we 
-had found alone, filhing ip his boat, feemed to think us en- 
tirely unworthy of his notice ; and fome, almoft without in- 
vitation, had come on board with an air of perfeft confidence 
and good-will, from the-oehaviour of our laft vifitors, I gave 
the land from which they had put oft, and which, as I have 
before obferved, . had the appearance of an ifland, the name of 
Lookers-on. 
At eight o’clock in the evening, a breeze fprung up at S. 
8. W. with which I ftretched off fouth eaft, becaufe fome on 
board thought they faw land in that quarter. In this courfe we 
continued till fix o’clock the next morning, when we had run 
eleven leagues, but faw no land, except that which we had 
left. Having flood to the S. E. with a light breeze, which 
veered from the weft to the north, till noon, our latitude by 
obfervation was 42 ; 56 S. and the high land that we were 
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