The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. Vol. II. Being the Second of the First VoyageCook, James
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The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. Vol. II. Being the Second of the First Voyage
Cook, James
Cook, James, 1728-1779 -- Travel; Explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography; Voyages around the world -- History -- 18th century
We continued to steer W. N. W. as the land lay, with twelve or fourteen
fathom water, till noon on the 6th, when our latitude by observation was
19° 1ʹ S. and we had the mouth of a bay all open, extending from S. ½ E.
to S. W. ½ S. distant two leagues. This bay, which I named CLEAVELAND
BAY, appeared to be about five or six miles in extent every way: the
east point I named CAPE CLEAVELAND, and the west, which had the
appearance of an island, MAGNETICAL ISLE, as we perceived that the
compass did not traverse well when we were near it: they are both high,
and so is the main land within them, the whole forming a surface the
most rugged, rocky, and barren of any we had seen upon the coast; it was
not however without inhabitants, for we saw smoke in several parts of
the bottom of the bay. The northermost land that was in sight at this
time, bore N. W., and it had the appearance of an island, for we could
not trace the main land farther than W. by N. We steered W. N. W.
keeping the main land on board, the outermost part of which, at sun-set,
bore W. by N.; but without it lay high land, which we judged not to be
part of it. At day-break, we were abreast of the eastern part of this
land, which we found to be a group of islands, lying about five leagues
from the main: at this time, being between the two shores, we advanced
slowly to the N. W. till noon, when our latitude, by observation, was
18° 49ʹ S. and our distance from the main about five leagues: the
north-west part of it bore from us N. by W. ½ W. the islands extending
from N. to E., and the nearest being distant about two miles: Cape
Cleaveland bore S. 50 E. distant eighteen leagues. Our soundings, in the
course that we had sailed between this time and the preceding noon, were
from fourteen to eleven fathom.
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