78 COOK’s VOYAGE, 
trance is a high round hill, which on the N. W. is apeninfula 
that at high water is furrounded by the fea : they are bold to 
both the Ihores, and the diftance between them is about two 
miles. In this inlet is good anchorage in feven, fix, five, and 
four fathom ; and places very convenient for laying a ihip 
down, where, at fpring-tides, the water does not rife lefs than 
fixteen or eighteen feet. The tide flows at the full and change 
of the moon about eleven o’clock. I have already obferved 
that here is no frefh water, nor could we procure refrefhment 
of any other kind : we faw two turtles, but we were not able 
to take either of them : neither did we catch either fifh or wild 
fowl, except a few fmall land-birds : we faw indeed the fame 
forts of water-fowl as in Botany Bay, but they were fo fhy that 
we could not get a fhot at them. 
As I had not therefore a Angle inducement to flay longer in 
this place, I weighed anchor at fix o’clock in the morning, 
of Thurfday the 31 ft of May, and put to fea. We ftood to 
the N. W. with a frelh breeze at S. S. E. and kept without 
the group of iflands that lie in fltore, and to the N. W. of 
Thirfty Sound, as there appeared to be no fafe pafiage be- 
tween them and the main : at the fame time we had a number 
of iflands without us, extending as far as we could fee : during 
our run in this dire&ion our depth of water was ten, eight, and 
nine fathom. At noon, the weft point of Thirfty Sound, 
which I have called Pier Head, bore S. 36 E. diftant five 
leagues ; the eaft point of the other inlet, which communi- 
cates with the found, bore S. by W. diftant two leagues ; the 
group of iflands juft mentioned lay between us and the point, 
and the fartheft part of the jnain in fight, on the other fide of 
the inlet, bere N. W. Our latitude by obfervation was 2 1 : 
53. At half an hour after twelve, the boat, which was found- 
ing ahead, made the fignal for fhoal water, and we immedi- 
ately hauled our wind to the N. E. At this time we had 
feven fathom, at the next caft five, and at the next three, 
upon which we inftantly dropped an anchor, that brought the 
fhip up. Pier Head the north weft point of Thirfty-Sound, 
bore S. E. diftant fix leagues, being half way between the 
iflands which lie off the eaft point of the weftern inlet, and 
three fmall iflands which lie diredlly without them. It was 
now the firft of the flood, which we found to fet N. W. by 
W. | W. ; and having founded about the fhoal, upon which 
we had three fathom, and found deep water all round it, we 
got under fail, and having hauled round the three iflands that 
have been juft mentioned, came to an anchor under the lee of 
them, in fifteen fathom water j and the weather being dark, 
hazy, and rainy, we remained there till feven o’clock in the 
morning. At this time we got again under fail, and ftood to 
the N, W, with a frefh breeze at §» 5. E. } having the maia 
