Volume 4

An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Sir Joseph Banks, Bart / By John Hawkesworth ... Illustrated with cuts and charts, relative to countries now first discovered, or hitherto but imperfectly known.

  • Hawkesworth, John, 1715?-1773.
Date:
1785
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Credit: An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Sir Joseph Banks, Bart / By John Hawkesworth ... Illustrated with cuts and charts, relative to countries now first discovered, or hitherto but imperfectly known. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    on the beach, who appeared to be of a black, or very dark colour. At noon, our latitude, by obfervation, was 35*^ 27' S. and longitude 209° 23'W. j Cape Dromedary bore S. 28 W. diftant nineteen leagues, a remarkable peaked hill, which refembled a fquare dove-houfe, with a dome at the top, and which for that reafon I called the Pigeon House, boreN. 32° 30' W., and a fmall low Hand, which lay clofe under the Ihore, bore N. W. diftant about two or three leagues. When 1 firft difcovered this ifland, in the morning, I was in hopes from its appearance, that I fhould have found flicker for the Ihip be- hind it, but when we came near it, it did not pro- inife fecLirity even for the landing of a boat: I fliould however have attempted to fend a boat on Ihore, if the wind had not veered to that diredlion, with a large hollow fea rolling in up- on the land from the S. E. which indeed had been the cafe ever fince we had been upon it. The coaft ftill continued to be of a moderate height, forming alternately rocky points and fandy beaches*, but within, between Mount Dromedary and the Pigeon Houfe, we faw high mountains, which, except two, are covered with wood: thefe two lie inland behincl the Pigeon Houfe, and are remarkably flat at the top, with fteep rocky cliffs all round them, as far as we could fee. The trees, which almoft every where clothe this country, appear to be large and