122 A VO Y A G E ROUND THE WORLD.
1773.
M a r c h .
daunted, and to four the fpirits of the moft cheerful. It
is therefore juftly to be wondered at, and ought to be
confidered as a diftinguifliing mark of divine protection,
that we had not felt thofe ill effedls which might have
been expedited, and juftly dreaded as the refult of fuch.
accumulated diftrefies.
CHA P .
A V O Y A G E ROUND T H E WORLD. Ï 2 3
C H A P . V.
Marchv
1773*
Stay at Dujky Bay ; defcription of it, and account of our tranf
actions there.
\ F T E R an interval of one hundred and twenty-two
days, and a run of above three thoufand five hundred
leagues, out of fight of land, we entered Dufky Bay
on the 26 th of March about noon. This bay is fituated Fridjy lS,
a little to the northward of Cape Weft, and captain Cook,
in his voyage in the Endeavour, had difcovered and named
it without entering into it *. The foundings gave about
4c fathoms in the entrance, hut as we advanced, we had
no ground with 60, and therefore were obliged to pufh
on farther. The weather was delightfully fair, and genially
warm, when compared to what we had lately experienced
; and we glided along by infenfible degrees,
wafted by light airs, pad numerous rocky iftands, each
o f which was covered with wood and fhrubberies, where
numerous evergreens were fweetly contrafted and mingled
with the various fhades of autumnal yellow. Flocks of
aquatic birds enlivened the rocky fliores, and the whole
country refounded with the wild notes of the feathered
* See Hawkefworth’s compilation, vol. III. p. 424. I 1 tribe.