1767. one mile to one quarter of a mile broad, I gave the name o f
■ June' , G lou c e s t er I s l a n d , in honour of his Royal Highnefs the
Gioucefter Duke Jt lies in latitude 19° 1 1 'S', and-longitude, by obfer-
vation, '140 °* if' W.
Friday 12. At five o’clock in the morning, we made fail,, and foon
after faw another ifland. At io o’clock, the weather being
tempeftuous, with much rain,, we faw a long reef, with
breakers on each fide of the ifland, and therefore brought
the fhip to, with her head off the fhore. To this ifland^
which lies in latitude rq° i,8' S.. longitude, by obfervation,
Cumberland W. I gave, the name of. Cumberland Island, in
honour of iiis Royal. Highnefs the Duke, It lies/low, and is
about the fame fize as Queen Charlotte’s Ifland. We found
the variation of the needle here to be 7° 10' E: As I had no
hope of finding any refrefhment here, I flood, on to die weft-
ward.
Saturday 13. At day-break, on Saturday the 13th, we law another
fmall low ifland, in the N. N. W. right to windward. It had
the appearance of fmall flat keys. This place. I called Prince
Prince wn- William H enry’s Island, in honour o f his Majefty’s third
iflamLCnry S fon. It lies in latitude 190 S. longitude, - by obfervation,
14C 6' W. I made no flay here, hoping, that to the weft-
ward I fhould find higher land, where the fhip-might come
to an anchor, and fuch refrefhments as we wanted be procured.
Wednef. 17. Soon after day-light, on the 17th, we faw land bearing
W. by N. and making in a fmall round hummock. At
noon, when it bore N. 64 W. diftant about five leagues, its
appearance greatly refembled the Mewffione in Plymouth
Sound, but it feemed to be much larger. We found the fhip
this day, 20 miles to the northward of her reckoning, which
I imputed to a great S. W, fwell.
At five in the evening, this ifland bore N. W. diftant about
eight miles.!. I then hauled the wind, and flood on and off
all night. At ten, we. faw a light upon the fhore, which,
though the ifland was fmall, proved that it was inhabited,
and gave us hopes that we fhould find anchorage near it.
We obferved with great pleafure, that the land was very
high, and covered with cocoa trees; ,a fure fign that there
was water..:
The next morning, I fent Lieutenant Furneaux to the Thurfdayis.
fhore, with the boats manned and armed, and all kinds of
trinkets, to eftablifh a traffic’ with the natives, for fuch refrefhment
as the place would afford. I gave him orders alfo
to find, i f poffible, an anchoring-place for the fhip. While
we were getting out the boats, feveral canoes put off from
the ifland, but as foon as the people on board faw them make
towards the fhore, they put back. At noon, the boats returned,
and brought with them a pig and a cock, with a few
plantains and cocoa-nuts. Mr. Furneaux reported, that he
had feen at leaft an hundred o f the inhabitants, and believed
there were many more upon the ifland; but that having
been all round it, he could find no anchorage, nor fcarcely
a landing-place for the boat; When he reached the fhore,
hecame to agrappling, and threw a warp to the Indians upon
the beach, who caught it and held it faft. He then began
to converfe with them by figns, and obferved that they had
no weapon among them, but that fome of them had white
flicks, which feemed to be enfigns of authority, as the
people who bore them kept the reft of the natives back. In
return for the pig and the cock, he gave them fome beads, a
looking glafs, a few combs, with feveral other trinkets, and
a hatchet. The women, who had been kept at a diftance,
as foon a$ they faw the trinkets, ran down in a croud to the
beach, with great eagernefs, but were foon driven away by
E e 2 the
Wednef., 17.'