Whitsun bay's Passage. 8j 
fa fe harbour, exclufive of the fmall bays and coves which 
abound on each fide, where fhips might lie as in a bafon. The 
land both upon the main and iflands is high, and diverfified by 
hill and valley, wood and lawn, with a green and pleafant 
appearance. On one of the iflands we difcovered with our 
glafles two men and a woman, and a canoe with an outrigger, 
which appeared to be larger, and of a conftnnftion very diffe- 
reht from thofe of bark tied together at the ends, which we 
had feen upon other parts of the coaft ; we hoped therefore 
that the people here had made fome farther advances beyond 
mere animal life, than thofe we had feen before. At fix o* 
clock in the evening, we were nearly the length of the north 
end of the paflage ; the north weftermoft point of the main in 
fight bore N. 54 W. and the north end of the ifland N. N. E. 
with an open fea between the two points. As this paffage 
was difcovered on Whitfunday, I called it WhItsund'ay’s 
Passage, and I called the iflands that form it Cumberland 
Islands, in honour of his Royal Highnefs the Duke. We 
kept under an eafy fail, with the lead going all night, being 
about three leagues from the fhore, aud having from twenty- 
oiie to twenty-three fathcm water. At day-break, we were 
abreaft of the point which had been the fartheft in fight to the 
north well the evening before, which I named C-ape Glou- 
cester. It is a lofty promontory, in latitude 19 : 59 S. lon- 
gitude, 21 1 : 49 W. and may be known by an ifland which 
lies out at fea N. by W. \ W. at the diftance of five or fix 
leages from it, and which I called Holborne Isle; there 
are alfo iflands lying under the land between Holborne Ifle, 
and Whitfunday’s Paffage. On the weft fide of Cape Glou- 
cefter the land trends away S. W. and S. S. W. and forms a 
deep bay, the bottom of'which I could but juft fee from the 
maft-head : it is very low, and a continuation of the low land 
which we had feen at the bottom of Repulfe Bay. This bay 
I called Edgecumbe Bay ; but without flaying to look into 
it, we continued our courfe to the weftward, for the fartheft 
land we could fee in that direction, whjph bore W. by N. §■ 
N. and appeared very high. At neon we were about three 
leagues from the fhore, by obfervation in latitude 19 : 47 S. 
and Cape Gloucefter bore S. 63 E. diftant feven leagues and 
an half. At fix in the evening, we v/ere abreaft of the wef- 
tefmoll: point juft mentioned, at about three miles diftance, 
andbecaufe it rifes abruptly from the low lands which furround 
it,' I called it Cape Upstart. It lies in latitude 19 : 39 S. 
longitude 21 2 : 32 W. fourteen leagues W. N. W. from Cape 
Gloucefter, and is of a height fufheient to be feen at the dif- 
tance of twelve leagues : inland there are fome high hills or 
mountains, which, like the Cape, afford but a barren pro- 
fpKV.’ Having paffed this Cape, we continued Banding to 
