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1767- moft vigorous and healthy, that had been wounded with the
, Augoli' , iviaftcr, and three of them mortally, and there was no hope
Saturday 15. fuch refrefhments as we moft needed in this
place. Thefe were difcouraging circumftances, and not
only put an end to my hopes o f profecuting the voyage farther
to the fouthward, but greatly difpirited the people ; except
myfelf, the Matter, and the Lieutenant, there was no
body on board capable of navigating the fhip home 5 the
Mafterwas known to be a dying man, and the recovery o f myfelf
and the Lieutenant was very doubtful. I would howgver.
have made a further effort to obtain refrefhments here, i f I
had been furnifhed with any toys, iron tools, or cutlery-
ware, which might have enabled me to recover the goodwill
of the natives, and eftablifh a traffic with them for
fuch neceffaries as they could have furnifhed us w ith; but I
had no fuch articles, and but very few others fit for an Indian
trade, and not being in a condition to rifk the lofs of
any more of the few men who were capable of doing duty, I
Monday 17. weighed anchor at day-break on Monday the 17th, and flood
along the fhore for that part o f the ifland to which I had
fent the cutter. To the ifland I had given the name of
Egmont Egmqnt Island, in honour o f the Earl: it certainly is the
fame to which the Spaniards have given the name o f Santa
Cruz, as appears by the accounts which their writers have
given of it, and I called the place in which we had lain,
Swallow Bay. From the eaftermoft point of this bay,
which I called Swallow Point, to the north eaft point of
the ifland which I called Cape Byron, is about feven miles
eaft, and from the weftermoft point o f the bay, which I
called Hanway’s Point, to Cape Byron, is about ten or
eleven miles. Between Swallow Point and Hanway’s Point,
in the bottom o f the bay, there is a third point, which does
not run out fo far j and a little to the w.eftward of this point
is