1770. upon his back, which we conjectured to be palm leaves for
■ Ma_ '. covering their houfes : we continued to obferve them above
Toefday i 5. an during which they walked upon the beach, and up
a path that led over a hill of a gentle afcent, behind which
we loft fight of them: not one of them was obferved to flop
and look towards us, but they trudged along, to all appearance,
without the leaft emotion either of curiofity or fur-
prize, though it is impoflible they Ihould not have feen the
fhip by a cafual glance as they walked along the fhore ; and
though fhe muft, with refpecl to every other objecfl they had
yet feen, have been little lefs ftupendous and unaccountable
than a floating mountain with all its woods would have been
to us. At noon, our latitude, by obfervation, was 28° 39' S.,
and longitude 206° 2 7' W. A high point of land, which I
named C afe B yron, boreN. W. by W. at the diftance of three
miles. It lies in latitude 28° 37' 30" S., longitude 206° 30' W.
and may be known by a remarkable Iharp peaked mountain,
which lies inland, and bears from it N. W. by W. From
this point, the land trends N. 13 W.: inland it is high and
hilly, but low near the fhore; to the fouthward of the point
it is alfo low and level. We continued to fleer along the
fhore with a frefh gale, till fun-fet, when we fuddenly difco-
vered breakers a-head, directly in the {hip's courfe, and alfo
on our larboard bow. At this time we were about five miles
from the land, and had twenty fathom water! we hauled up
eaft till eight, when we had run eight miles, and increafed
our depth of water to forty-four fathom | we then brought
to, with the {hip’s head to the eaftward, and lay upon this
tack till ten, when, having increafed our founding to
feventy-eight fathom, we wore, and lay with the fhip’s head
, / * to the land till five in the morning, when we made fail, and
at day-light, were greatly furprized to find ourfelves farther
to the fouthward, than we had been the evening before,
6 though
though the wind had been foutherly, and blown frefh all mo-
night: we now faw the breakers again within us, and palfed i_—j—
them at the diftance of one league. They lie in latitude
28° 8' S. ftretching off eaft two leagues from a point of land,
under which is a fmall iflancl. Their fituation may always
he known by the peaked mountain which has been juft
mentioned, and which bears from them S. W. by W. for this
reafon I have named it Mount Warning. It lies feven or
eight leagues inland, in latitude 28° 22' S. The land about
it is high and hilly, but it is of itfelf fufficiently confpicuous-
to be at once diftinguiflied from every other objecfl. The
Point off which thefe fhoals lie, I have named Point
D anger. To the northward of this Point the land is low,
and trends N. W. by N .; but it foon turns again more to the
northward.
At noon, we were about two leagues from the land, and
by obfervation, in latitude 270 46' S. which was feventeen
miles to the fouthward of the lo g ; our longitude was 206°
26' W. Mount Warning bore S. 26 W. diftant fourteen leagues,
and the northermoft land in fight bore N. We purfued our
courfe along the fhore, at the diftance of about two leagues,
in the direiflion of N.gE. till between four and five in the
afternoon, when we difcovered breakers on our larboard
bow. Our depth of water was thirty-feven fathom, and at •
fun-fet, the northermoft land bore N. by W. the breakers
N. W. by W. diftant four miles, and the northermoft land fet
at noon, which formed a point, and to which I gave the
name of Point Look-out , W. diftant five or fix miles, in-
the latitude of 27° 6'. On the north fide of this Point, the
fhore forms a wide open bay, which I called Mor Eton’s
Ba y , in the bottom of which the land is fo low that I could
but juft fee it from the top-maft head. The breakers lie between
three and four miles from Point Look-out; and at this
time