4 COOK’s VOYAGE 
ordered the fhip to be wore, and fleered E. S. E. by compafs, 
in the direction which the land was faid to bear from us at that 
time. At noon we were in latitude 44 : 7 S. ; the fouth 
point of Banks’s Ifland bearing north, diflant five leagues. By 
Jeven o’clock at night we had run eight and twenty miles, 
when feeing no land, nor any figns of any, but that which we 
had left, we bore away S. by W. and continued upon that 
courie till the next day at noon, when we were in latitude 45 : 
j 6, the fouth point cf Banks’s ifland bearing N. 6 : 30 W'. 
diflant twenty eight leagues. The variation by the azimuth 
this morning was 15 : 30 E. As no figns of land had yet 
appeared to the fouthward, and as I thought that we had flood 
far enough in that direction to weather all the land we had 
left, judging from the report cf the natives in Q«een Char- 
lotte's Sound, 1 hauled to the weftward. 
We had a moderate breeze at N. N. W. and N. till eight 
in the evening, when it became unfettled ; and at ten fixed at 
fouth : during the night, it blew with fuch violence that it 
brought us under our clcfe reefed topfails. At eight the next 
morning, having run twenty-eight leagues upon a W. by N. \ 
N. courie, and judging ourfelves to be to the weftward of the 
land of Vovy Poenammoo, we bore away N. W. with a frefh 
gale at fouth. At ten, having run eleven rhiles upon this 
courfe, wefaw land extending from the S. W. to the N. W. at 
the alliance of about ten leagues, which we hauled up for. 
At noon, our latitude by obfervation was 44 : 38, the fouth eall 
point of Banks’s Ifland bore N. 58 : 30 E. diflant thirty 
leagues, and the main body of the land in fight W. by N. A 
head fea prevented us from making much way to the fouth- 
ward ; at ieven in the evening the extremes of the land flretch- 
ed from S. W. by S. to N. bv W. ; and at fix leagues from 
me In ore we had thirty- two fathom water. At four o’ clock 
the next morning, we flood in for the fiiore W. by S. and dur- 
ing a courfe of four leagues, our depth of water was from thir- 
ty-two to thirteen fathom. When it was thirteen fathom we 
were but three miles diflant from the fhore, and therefore flood 
off; its dire&ion is here nearly N. and S. The furface, to 
the diltance of about five miles from the fea, is low and flat ; 
but it then rifes into hills of a confiderable height. It appeared 
to be totally barren, and we faw no figns of its being inhabited. 
Our latitude, at noon, was 44:44; and the longitude which 
we made from Banks’s Ifland to this place was 2 : 22 W, 
During the laii twenty-four hours, though we carried as much 
fail as the ihip would bear, we were driven three leagues to the 
leeward. 
We continued to ftand off and on all this day and the next, 
keeping at the diflance of between four and twelve leagues 
from the fhore, and having water from thirty-five to fifty-three 
Jiuhujn. Oil the zzd, at noon, we had nc obfervation, but by 
the 
