58 
A VOYAGE TO 
1776. 
December. 
upon a nearer approach, we found to he an iiland of con- 
fiderable height, and about three leagues in circuit A Soon 
after, we faw another of the fame magnitude, one league 
to the E aft ward t; and between thefe two, in the direction 
of South Eaft, fome fmaller ones j. In the diredlion of 
South by Eaft \ Eaft, from the Eaft end of the firft iiland, 
a third § high iiland was feen. At times, as the fog broke 
away, we had the appearance of land over the fmall illands ; 
and I had thoughts of fleering for it, by running in be¬ 
tween them. But, on drawing nearer, I found this would 
be a dangerous attempt, while the weather continued foggy. 
For if there fhould be no paffage, or if we fhould meet with 
any fudden danger, it would have been impoflible for us to 
get off; the wind being right a-ftern, and a prodigious fea 
running, that broke on all the fhores in a frightful furf. 
At the fame time, feeing another iiland in the North Eaft 
direction, and not knowing but that there might be more, 
I judged it prudent to haul off, and wait for clearer wuather, 
left we fhould get intangled amongft unknown lands in a 
thick fog. 
We did but juft weather the iiland laft mentioned. It is a 
high round rock, which was named Bligh’s Cap. Perhaps 
ing coafts of the greater land, as reprefented on the annexed Chart, bears a ftriking re- 
femblance to Kerguelen’s delineation of them ; whofe Chart, however, the Public may be 
allured, was unknown in England till after ours had been engraved. 
* This is the ifle to which Kerguelen gave the name of Croy or Crouy. Befides deli¬ 
neating it upon his Chart, he has added a particular view of it, exactly correfponding with 
Captain Cook’s account of its being of confiderable height. 
f Kerguelen called this IJie Rolland, after the name of his own fhip. There is alfo a 
particular view of it on the French Chart. 
% The obfervations of the French and Englilh navigators agree exactly, as to the 
pofition of thefe fmaller ifles. 
§ The fituation of Kerguelen’s IJie de Clugny , as marked on this Chart, Ihews it to 
be the third high ijland feen by Captain Cook. 
this 
