* CAPTAIN COOK ’S SECOND VOYAGE. 569
Under no apprehenfions of meeting with any danger, the captain was not backward incarrying fail.
» For the three days pad the mercury in the thermometer had rifen to forty-fix,and the weather was quite mild. Seven or eight degrees of latitude had made afurprifing difference in the temperature of the air, which they felt with an agreeablefatisfa&ion.
On the 25th, they were before the entrance of a bay, which they had miftaken forDufky Bay, being deceived by forne iflands that lay in the mouth of it.
Fearing to run, in thick weather, into a place to which they were ft rangers, andfeeing fome breakers and broken ground a-head, they tacked in twenty-five fathomwater, and flood out to fea.
On the 26th, they fleered and entered Dufky Bay about noon. In this baythey were all flrangers; in Captain Cook ’s former voyage, he only difcovered andnamed it.
After running about two leagues up the bay, and palling feveral of the ifles whichlay in it, they brought to, and hoifted out two boats; one of which was fent awaywith an officer round a point on the larboard hand, to look for anchorage. This hefound, and fignified the fame by fignal. They then followed with the fhip, andanchored in fifty fathoms water, fo near the fhore as to reach it with an hawfer. Thiswas on Friday the 26th of March, at three in the afternoon, after having been onehundred and feventeen days at fea; in which time they failed three thoufand fix hun-dred and fixty leagues, without having once fight of land.
After fuch a long continuance at fea, in a high fouthern latitude, it is but reafonableto think that many of the people mult be ill of the fcurvy. The contrary, however,happened. Sweet wort had been given to fuch as were fcorbutic. This had fo farthe defired effedl, that they had only one man on board that could be called veryill of this difeafe; occafioned chiefly by a bad habit of body, and a complication ofother diforders.
Their firfl care, after the fhip was moored, was to fend a boat and people a fifhing;in the mean time, fome of the gentlemen killed a feal, out of many that were upon arock, which made them a frefh meal.
The fifhing-boat was very fuccefsful, returning with fiflx fufficient for all hands forfupper; and in a few hours in the morning, caught as many as ferved for dinner.This gave them certain hopes of being plentifully fupplied with this article. Nor did theihores and woods appear lefs deflitute of wild fowl; fo that they hoped to enjoy,'rith eafe, what, in their fituation, might be called the luxuries of life. This deter-mined them to flay fome time in this bay, in order to examine it thoroughly ; as no°De had ever landed before, on any of the fouthern parts of this country.
About one hundred yards from-the flern was a fine flream of frefh water. Thusfituated, they began to clear places in the woods, in order to fet up the aflronorner’s°bfervatqry, the forge to repair their iron-work, tents for the fail-makers and coopersto repair the fails and calks in ; to land the empty calks, to fill water, and to cut down"Wood for fuel; all of which were abfolutely neceflary occupations. They alfo beganm brew beer from the branches or leaves of a tree, which much refembles the Arne-ri can black fpruce.
The few fheep and goats they had left were not likely to fare well, there being noSrafs here but what was coarfe and harfh. It was, however, not fo bad, but it wasex pedled they would devour it with great greedinefs, but they were the moreTurprifedt0 find they would not tafte it j nor did they feem over fond of the leaves of more
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