f COOK’s VOYAGE 
fell: that our danger was imminent, and our efcape critical in 
the higheft degree : from the fituation of thefe rocks, fo well 
adapted to catch unwary ftrangers, I called them the Traps. 
Our latitude at noon was 47 ; 26 S. The Land in Sight, which 
had the appearance of an ifland, extended from N. E. by N. 
to N. W. by W. and feemed to be about five leagues diftant from 
the main ; the eaftermoft ledge of rocks bore S. S. E. diftant 
one league and an half, and the northermoft N. E. \ E. dif- 
tant about three leagues. This land is high and barren, with 
nothing upon it but a few ftraggling ftirubs, for not a fingle 
tree was to be feen ; it was however remarkable for a number 
of white patches, which I took to be marble, as they refleded 
the fun’s rays very ftrongly : other patches of the fame kind 
we had obferved in different parts of this country, particularly 
in Mercury Bay : we continued to ftand clofe upon a wind to 
the weftward, and at fun-fet the fouthermoft point of land bore 
N. 38 E. diftant four leagues, and the weftermoft land in fight 
bore N. 2 E. The point which lies in latitude 47 : 19 S. lon- 
gitude 192 : 12W, I named South-Cape : the weftermoft 
land was a fmall ifland, lying off the point of the main. 
Suppofing South Cape to be the fouthern extremity of this 
country, as indeed it proved to be, I hoped to get round it by 
the weft, for a large hollow fwell from the fouth weft, ever 
fince our iaft hard gale, had convinced me that there was no 
land in that direction. 
In the night we had a hard gale at N. E. by N. and N. 
which brought us under our courfes, but about eight in the 
morning it became moderate ; and at noon, veering to the weft, 
we tacked and ftood to the northward, having no land in fight. 
Our latitude, by obfervation, was 47 : 33 S. our longitude,, 
weft from the South Cape, 59. We ftood away N. N. E. clofe 
upon a wind, without feeing any land, till two the next morn- 
ing, when we difcovered an ifland bearing N. W. by N. dif- 
tant about five leagues : about two hours afterwards we faw 
land a-head, upon which we tacked and ftood off till fix, when 
we ftood in to take a nearer view of it : at eleven we were 
within three leagues of it, but the wind feeming to incline 
upon the lhore, I tacked and ftood off to the fouthward. We 
had now failed round the land which we had difcovered on the 
5 th, and which then did not appear to be joined to the main, 
which lay north of it ; and being now come to the other fide of 
what we fuppofed to be water, a bay, or low land, it had the 
fame appearance, but when I came to lay it down upon paper 
I faw no reafon to fuppofe it to be an ifland ; on the contrary, 
I was clearly of opinion that it made part of the main. At 
noon, the weftern extremity of the main bore N. 59 W. and 
the ifland which we had feen in the morning, S. 59 W. dif- 
tant about five leagues. It lies in latitude 46 : 3 1 S. longitude 
192 : 49 W. and is nothing but a barren rock, about a mile in 
circuit, 
