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We purfued our courfe to the E aft ward, without meeting I777 . 
with any thing worthy of note, till the night between the , February ‘, 
6th and 7th of February, when a marine belonging to the Friday 7. 
Difcovery fell over-board, and was never feen afterward. 
This was the fecond misfortune of the kind that had hap¬ 
pened to Captain Clerke ftnce he left England. 
On the 10th, at four in the afternoon, we difcovered the Monday 10, 
land of New Zealand. The part we faw proved to be Rock’s 
Point, and bore South Eaft by South, about eight or nine 
leagues diftant. During this run from Van Diemen’s Land, 
the wind, for the firft four or five days, was at North Eaft, 
North, and North North Weft, and blew, for the moft part, 
a gentle breeze. It afterward veered to South Eaft, where 
it remained twenty-four hours. It then came to Weft and 
South Weft ; in which points it continued, with very little 
deviation, till we reached New Zealand. 
After making the land, I fteered for Cape Farewell, which 
at day-break, the next morning, bore South by Weft, diftant Tuefday u. 
about four leagues. At eight o’clock, it bore South Weft 
by South, about five leagues diftant; and, in this fituation, 
we had forty-five fathoms water over a fandy bottom. In 
rounding the Cape we had fifty fathoms, and the fame fort 
of bottom. 
I now fteered for Stephens’s Ifland, which we came up 
with at nine o’clock at night; and at ten, next morning, Wednef. 12. 
anchored in our old ftation, in Queen Charlotte’s Sound *. 
Unwilling to lofe any time, our operations commenced that 
very afternoon, when we landed a number of empty water- 
caiks, and began to clear a place where we might fet up 
* See the Chart of Queen Charlotte’s Sound, in Hawkefworth’s Collection, Vol. ii. 
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