olóbér. riSng one over the other; afidd cham of mountains;
i— above all, which- appeared- to be Of* a« fenettööö^-héffsffit
ims land beeaffie the fubjedl of nrUc'h ea^ef corivefflition;
but the general opinioit denied to he'that we had fbund thé
Terra auftraüs incognita. About five otlock we faw fhe'operi-
ing of a bay, which feemed to nm prefty fin- hi-KmcI, ifpón
which we hauled our Wind1 and ffdtjcf in' 9ËÉïtr^ w‘é aïféfaw
fmoke afcending frorirdifferent piaces;bri feoré^A^hen night
Sunday s. came 0n, however, we kept plying off arid hii tilt ddy-ïighty
when we found ourfelves to the leeward of the bay'! the
■ wind bèing at north: we could now pdrceiée that'the tiil'Isi
were clothed with wood, and that fomé of! tfre" treel rn the
valleys were very large. .By noon we fetched in with the
fouth weft points, but not being able to Weather id'tacked1
and flood off: at this time we faw feverii canoes fiariding
crofs. the bay, which in a little time made to ihore, Without
feeming to take the leaft notice of the fhip; we alfo faw fame
houfes, which appeared to be fmall, but neat,; and near one
of them a confiderable number of the people collected together,
who were fitting upon the béach, and who, we
thought, were thé fame that we had feed in the canoe si Upoh
a fmall peninfula, at the north eaft head, we could,plainly
perceive a pretty high and regular paling, which inclofed the
whole top of a hill; this was alfo the fubjccl of much fpecu-
lation, fome fuppofing it to be a park of fleer, others an inclo-
fure for oxen and flieep. About four o’clock in the afternoon,
we anchored on the north weft fide of the bay, before the
entrance of a fmall rivër, in ten fathom water, with a fine
fandy bottom, and at about half a league from the fhore.
The fides of the bay are white cliffs of a great height; the
middle is low land, with hilk gradually rifing: behind, one
towering above another, and terminating in the chain of
mountains which appeared to be far inland.
In
In the evening I wentian fhoye, acoompanied by Mr. Banks 'T6(>■
i i October. and Dr. Sölander; with the pinnace and yawl, and a party or --- „—
men. We.landed abreaft of the fliip, on the eaft fide of the Su"da1' 8‘
river, which was here about forty yards broad ; but feeing
fome natives on the weftfide whom I wifhed to fpeak with,
and finding the river not fordable, I ordered the yawl in to
carry us over, and left the pinnace at the.entrance. When
we. came near the place where the people were afiembled,
they all ran away; however, we landed, and leaving four
boys to take care of the yawl, we walked up to fome huts
which were about two or three hundred yards from the
water-fide. When we had gotfome diftance from the boat, four
men, armed with long lances, rufhed out of the woods, and
running up to attack the boat, would certainly have cut her
pff, ,jf the people in the pinnace had not difcoyered them,
and called to the boys to drop down the iiream : the boys
iriftandy obeyed ; but being clofely purfued by the Indians,
the Cockfwain of the pinnace, who had the charge of the
boats, fired a mufquet over their heads; at this they flopped
and looked round them, but in a few minutes renewed the
purfuit, brandifhing their lances in a threatening manner:
the Cockfwain then fired afecpnd mufquet over their heads,
but of this, they took no notice; ,and one of them lifting up
his fpear to. dart it at the boat, another piece was fired, which
fhot him dead. When he fell, the other three flood motion-
lefsifor fome minutes, as if petrified with aftonifhment; as
foon as they recovered, they went back, dragging after them
the dead body, which however, they foon left, that it might
not incumber thir flight. At the report of the firft mufquet
we drew together, having ftraggled to a little diftance from
each other, and made the bell of our way back to the boat;
and croffing the river, we foon faw thé Indian lying dead
upon the ground. Upon examining the body, we found
O o 2 that