sSXm leagues. By feven o’clock at night we had run eight and
S**3 S ^ tWenty miles> when feeinS no land- nor any figns of any,
but that which we had left, we bore away S. by W. and con-
Sundayf tinued upon that courfe till the next day at noon, when we
were, in latitude 4s° 16', the fouth point of Banks’s Ifland
bearing N. 6° 30'W. diftant twenty-eight leagues. The variation
by the. azimuth this morning was 150 30' E. As no
figns of land had yet appeared to the fouthward, and as I
thought that we had flood far enough in that direction to
weather all the land we had left, judging from the report of
the native? in Queen Charlotte’s Sound, I hauled to the
weftward.
We had a moderate breeze at N.N.W. and N. till eight
in the evening, when it became unfettled; and at ten fixed
at fouth: during the night, it blew with fuch violence that
it brought us under our clofe reefed topfails. At eight the
Monday ,9r next morning, having run twenty-eight leagues upon a
W. by N. t N. courfe, and judging ourfelves to be to the
weftward of the land of Tovy Poenammoo, we bore away
N. W. with a frefti gale at fouth. At ten, having run eleven
miles upon this courfe, we faw land extending from the
S. W. to the N. W. at the diftance of about ten leagues, which
we hauled up for. At noon, our latitude by obfervation was
44° 38' . the fouth eaft point of Banks’s Ifland bore N. 58° 30' E.
diftant thirty leagues, and the main body of the land in fight
W. by N. A head fea prevented us from making much
way to the fouthward; at feven in the evening the extremes
of the land ftretched from S. W. by S. to N. by W .; and
at fix leagues from the fhore we had thirty-two fathom wa-
Tucfday 20. ter. At four o’clock the next morning, we flood in for the
fhore W. by S. and during a courfe of four leagues, our
depth of water was from thirty-two to thirteen fathom.
When
When it was thirteen fathom we were but three miles diftant
from the fhore, and therefore flood of!'; its dire&ion is here
nearly N. and S. The furface, to the diftance of about five
miles from the fea, is low and flat; but it then rifes into hills
of a confiderable height. It appeared to be totally barren,
and we faw no figns of its being inhabited. Our latitude,
at noon, was 44° 44'; and the longitude which we made
from Banks’s Ifland to this place was 2“ 22’ W. During the
laft twenty-four hours, though we carried as much fail as
the fhip would bear, we were driven three leagues to the
leeward.
We continued to Hand off and on all this day and the next, wedr.ef.21.
keeping at the diftance of between four and twelve leagues
from the fhore, and having water from thirty-five to fifty-
three fathom. On the 22d, at noon, we had no obfervation, Thurfday 22.
but by the land judged ourfelves to be about three leagues
farther north than we had been the day before. At fun-fet,
the weather, which had been hazey, clearing up, we faw a
mountain which rofe in a high peak, bearing N.W. by N .;
and at the fame time, we faw the land more diftinftly than
before, extending from N. to S. W. by S. which, at fome dif.
tance within the coaft, had a lofty and mountainous appearance.
We foon found that the accounts which had been
given us by the Indians in Queen Charlotte’s Sound of the
land, to the fouthward were not true ; for they had told us
that it might be circumnavigated in four days.
On the 23d, having a hollow fwell from the S. E. and ex- Friday 23.
pefting wind from the fame quarter, we kept plying between
feven and fifteen leagues from the fhore, having
from feventy to forty-four fathom. At noon, our latitude
by obfervation was 440 40' S. and our longitude from Banks’s
ifland 1 ° 31' W. From this time to fix in the evening it was
calm;