nine leagues diftance, bearing W . and by N. we bore up to it, and, at fun-fet, we
had a good view of it. The land was high, and it appeared like an ifland. We
regaled ourfelves in the evening upon the occafion ; the land was called. Young
Nick's Head, and the boy received his reward. . The fea, on this coaft, was full of a
fmall tranfparent animal, which, upon examination, we called Beroe Coaretata.
Latitude 3 8° 49' *.
On the 8th, we had light breezes a || dead- calms all day, and could not get in
nearer the land than two or three leagues ; but it appeared, at this diftance, to be
of coniiderable extent, with many fmall ¡Hands around it; and had riling hills like
the coaft of Portugal. We faw fmoke afcend from different parts, and thence
concluded that it was inhabited.. The two extreme points of the land bore N. and
S. S. W. We faw lèverai grampufles,' but few birds.
On the 9th, early in the morning, the wind being.favourable, we ftood in nearef
land, where it feemed toopen andform a deep bay; [fee pl. XI V,] but, on apprôach-
ing it, we difcovered low land, and it was much fhallovver- than we expeded. Upon
entering we had regular foundings all the way, from twenty-fix'to fix fathoms, and
caft anchor on the eaft fide in ten fathoms water, about-two or three miles from the
iliore, over-againft the land on the right, where there was the appearance of a river.
At the entrance of the bay, which is. a very, large one, being about three leagues in
breadth,., and two in depth, are feveral chalky cliffs, from which runs a low ridge
of land that ends in a hillock : at a little diftance from the hillock, there is a fmall
high ifland, and, on the top of it, an inclofure o f pales. ' ‘Abundance/of white
cliffs are fcen all along the coaft; and the hills appear to be -Covered' with fmalil •
wood and buihes, affording but an indifferent landfcape. We difcovered feveral
houfes by our glaffes. They feemed to be thatehed, and the eaves of them reached
to the ground. Within the bay there are many hills one. behind another; though
moft part of the bay is furrounded by a valley in which is a number of trees; froth
whence, as well as other parts of the country, we faw fome fmoke arife. We alfo
* As we have, in pl. X X V . given a map o f the coaft of New Zealand, in which the latitudes '
and longitudes, of the feveral places we explored, are corre&ly fet down, we in our account of
that ifland, omit mentioning the fituation o f places in that refped, and, once for all, refer the reader
to the map.
difcovered ,