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could be no ftrangers to the affair which happened off Cape Kidnapper in the formervoyage, experience had taught them to have fome regard to thefe inftruments of death.
They now ftretched to the fouthward ; prefently after violent weather came on, andfor two days they were beating up againft a hard gale. When they arrived juft in fightof port, they had the mortification to be driven off from the land by a furious ftorm.Two favourable circumltances attended it, which gave them fome confolation; it wasfair over-head, and they were not apprehenfive of a lee-fhore.
They continued to combat tempeftuous weather till the 30th, when they loft fight ofthe Adventure. In the afternoon the gale abated. Captain Cook now" regretted thelofs of her ; for had fhe been with him, he fhould have given up all thoughts of goingto Queen Charlotte’s Sound to wood and water, and have fought for a place to getthefe articles farther fouth, as the wind was now favourable for ranging along the coaft.But their feparation made it neceffary for him to repair to the Sound, that being theplace of rendezvous.
As they approached the land they faw fmoke in feveral places along the fhore; afure fign that the coaft was inhabited. They continued to Hand to the eaftward allnight, in hopes of meeting with the Adventure in the morning, the 31ft of Odlober.
Seeing nothing of her then, they wore and brought-to under the fore fail and mizen-ftay-fail, the wind having increafed to a perfect ftorm. At fix o’clock in the eveningthe wind quite ceafed ; but this only proved a momentary repofe ; for, prefently after,it began to blow with redoubled fury, and obliged them to lie to under the mizen-ftay-fail, in which fituation they continued till midnight, when the ftorm leffened; andtwo hours after it fell calm.
On the 1 ft of November, at four o’clock in the morning, the calm was fucceededby a breeze from the fouth. Soon after it increafed to a frefh gale, attended withhazy rainy weather, which gave them hopes that the north-weft winds were done.;for it muft be obferved, they were not wanting in taking immediate advantage of thisfavourable wind, by fetting all their fails, and fleering for Cape Campbell, which atnoon bore north, diftant three or four leagues. At two o’clock they paffed the Cape,and entered the Strait with a brifk gale a-ftern, and fo likely to continue, that theythought of nothing lefs than reaching their port the next morning. Once more theywere deceived; at fix o’clock, being off Cloudy Bay, the favourable wind was ft 10 "ceeded by one from the north, which foon after veered to north-weft, and increafed toa frefh gale. Next morning they ftretched over for the fhore of Eaheinomawe. A £fun-rife the horizon being extraordinary clear to leeward, they looked well out for theAdventure ; but as they faw nothing of her, judged fhe had got into the Sound. -A sthey approached the above-mentioned fhore, they difcovered on the eaft fide of CapeTeerawhitte, a new inlet they had never obferved before, into which they entered ancaft anchor.
Soon after they had anchored, feveral of the natives came off in their canoes; twofrom one fhore, and one from the other. It required but little addrefs to get three orfour of them on board. Thefe people were extravagantly fond of nails above everyother thing. To one man the captain gave two cocks and two hens, which he receivewith fo much indifference, as gave little hopes he would take proper care of them.
They had not been at anchor here above two hours, before the wind veered, tonorth-eaft, with which they weighed, and fleered to the Sound , where they arrived jmat dark, with moft of their fails fplit, and anchored in eight fathoms water.
The next morning, the 3d of November, the gale abated, and was fucceeded °ya few hours calm; after that a breezefprung up at north-weft, with which they weigneand ran up into Ship Cove, where they did not find the Adventure , as was expect ’
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