sisting chiefly of penguins, petrels, albatrosses, ducks, shags, and gulls. Besides several small petrels, there were numbers of the largest petrel, the size of an albatross, called by the seamen Mother Carey's Goose. These and the penguins were so tame as to be taken with the hand.
From Kerguelen's Land, our navigators steered to the eastward for New Zealand. In the begining of January, 1777, the weather became very hazy, yet by the frequent firing of signal guns, the vessels kept together. On the 19th, in a sudden squall of wind, the fore-top-mast of the Resolution went by the board, and carried the main-top-gallant-mast with it. This occasioned some delay, as a whole day was spent in repairing the damage.
On friday, the 24th, Van Diemen's Land was discovered, near South West Cape; and passing South Cape and Tasman's Head, the ships anchored in Adventure Bay, on the 26th. Here our navigators landed, to procure wood and water, and obtain some grass for the cattle. The number of these had diminished, several of them having died at Kerguelen's Land. The grass here was coarse, as well as scarce; but wood and water were plentiful, and many excellent fish were caught by the seine. On tuesday, the 28th, when a party were cutting some spars, eight native men and a boy came to the spot, in a most friendly way; shewing no signs of fear, and having no weapons, except that one man carried a short pointed stick. They wore neither clothes nor ornaments; but their bodies were marked with tattooed lines, and their hair and faces generally smeared with red ointment. Their skin was black, and their hair woolly; but their features were not disagreeable. They seemed
