THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
Cape, in the diredlion of South 53 0 Eaft, and appeared to he 
a point at a confiderable diftance; for the trending of the 
coaft from the Cape was more Southerly. We alfo faw 
feveral rocks and iflands to the Eaftward of the above di¬ 
rections, the moft diftant of which was about feven leagues 
from the Cape, bearing South 88° Eaft A 
We had no fooner got off the Cape, than we obferved the 
coaft, to the Southward, to be much indented by projecting 
points and bays; fo that we now made fure of foon finding 
a good harbour. Accordingly, we had not run a mile far¬ 
ther, before we difcovered one behind the Cape, into which 
we began to ply; but after making one board, it fell calm, 
and we anchored at the entrance in forty-five fathoms wa¬ 
ter, the bottom black fand; as did the Difcovery foon after. 
I immediately difpatched Mr. Bligh, the Mafter, in a boat to 
found the harbour; who, on his return, reported it to be 
fafe and commodious, with good anchorage in every part; 
and great plenty of frefh water, feals, penguins, and other 
birds on the fhore; but not a ftick of wood. While we lay 
at anchor, we obferved that the flood tide came from the 
South Eaft, running two knots, at leaft, in an hour. 
At day-break, in the morning of the 25th, we weighed 
with a gentle breeze at Weft; and having wrought into the 
harbour, to within a quarter of a ftiile of the fandy beach 
at its head, we anchored in eight fathoms water, the bottom 
a fine dark fand. The Difcovery did not get in till two 
o’clock in the afternoon; when Captain Clerke informed 
me, that he had narrowly efcaped being driven on the South 
* The obfervations of the brench, round Cape Francois, remarkably coincide with 
Captain Cook s in this paragraph ; and the rocks and iflands here mentioned by him, alfo 
appear upon their Chart. 
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1776. 
December. 
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Wedncf, 25. 
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