CAPE SAUNDERS. 5 
the land judged ourfelves to be about three leagues farther 
north than we had been the day before. At fun-fet, the wea- 
ther, which had been hazey, clearing up, we faw a mountain 
which rofe in a high peak, bearing N. W. by N. ; and at the 
fame time, we faw the land more diflinttly than before, ex- 
tending from N. to S. W. by S. which r at fome diflance with- 
in the coafl, had a lofty and mountainous appearance. We 
foon found that the accounts which had been given us by the 
Indians in Queen Charlotte’s Sound of the land to the fouth- 
ward were not true ; for they had told us that it might be cir- 
cumnavigated in four days. 
On the 23d, having a hollow fwell from the S. E. and ex- 
petting wind from the fame quarter, we kept plying between 
feven and fifteen leagues from die fhore, having from feventy 
to 44 fathom. At noon, our latitude by obfervation was 44 : 
40 S. and our longitude from Banks’s Ifland 1 : 31 W. From 
this time to fix in the evening it was calm ; but a light 
breeze then fpringing up at E. N. E. we fleered S. S. E. all 
night, edging off from the land, the hollow fwell Hill conti- 
nuing ; our depth of water was from fixty to ' feventy-five fa- 
thom. While we were becalmed, Mr. Banks, being out in 
the boat, fhot two Port Egmont hens, which were in every re- 
fpett the fame as t-hofe that are found in great numbers upon 
the ifland of Faro, and were the firfl of the kind we had feen 
upon this coafl, though we fell in with fome a few days before 
we made land. = - ■ 
At day-break, the wind frefhened, and before noon we had 
a flrong gale at N. N. E. At eight in the morning v/e faw 
the land expending as far as S. W. by S. and fleered direttly 
for it. At noon we were in latitude 45 :22 s.; and the land, 
which now flretched from S. W. \ S. to N. N. W. appeared 
to be rudely diverfified by hill and valley. In the afternoon, 
we fleered S. W. by S. and S. W. edging in for the land with 
a frefh gale at north ; but though we were at ito great alliance, 
die weather was fo hazey that we could fee nothing diflinftly 
upon it, except a ridge of high hills, lying not far from the 
fea, and parallel to the coafl, which in this place flretches S. 
by W. and N. by E. and feemed to end in a high bluff point- 
to the fouthward. By eight in the evening we were abreafl of 
this point ; but it being then dark, and I not knowing which 
way the land trended, we brought to for the night. At this 
time, the point bore well, and was diflant about five miles ; 
our depth' of water was thirty- feven fathom, and the bottom 
confifled of fmall pebbles. •• 
At day- break, having made fail, the point bore north, dif- 
tant three leagues, and we now found that the land trended 
from it S. W. by W. as far as we could fee. This point I, 
named Cape Saunders, in honour of Sir Charles! Our 
latitude was 45 : 35 S. and longitude 189 : 4 W. By the la- 
titude, 
