situation. While I was looking for this land, the Adventure was separated from me: this did not hinder me from proceeding again to the south, to the latitude of 61 and 62°; which was as far as the ice and prudence would allow me. I kept between this latitude and 58°, without seeing any signs of land, till I thought proper to steer for N. Zealand, where I anchored in Dusky Bay on the 26th of March. This Bay lies on the S.W. point of N. Zealand, and abounds with fish and wild fowl, on which we refreshed ourselves for near seven weeks, and then sailed to Queen Charlotte's Sound, where I found the Adventure, which had been here six weeks.
I left this Sound on the 7th of June, and proceeded with the two ships to the east, between the latitude of 42 and 47°, till we got into the longitude of 136° W. Despairing of finding land in the high latitudes, I bore up for Otaheite; as it was now necessary for us to get into port, the Adventure's crew being very sickly. In our run to Otaheite, we discovered, in latitude 17°, some low isles; and on the 17th of August we anchored at Otaheite, but not before we were within an ace of losing the Resolution. At this isle we remained 16 days, got plenty of fruit, but very little fresh pork the people seemed not to have it to spare. I next visited Huaheine and Ulietea, where the good people of these isles gave us every thing the isles produced, with a liberal and full hand, and we left them with our decks crowded with pigs, and our rigging loaded with fruit. I next visited Amsterdam, in latitude 21°, an island discovered by the Dutch in 1642: it is one of those happy isles, on which Nature has been lavishing of her
