honour of the "High and Mighty States;" Port Maurice, on the right, one of the spots where Cook also anchored, was so called from Maurice of Nassau; Barnevelt's Isles, beyond the strait, had their name from a Dutch gentleman of rank; and Cape Horn was so called, in honour of the town of Horn, the native place of Schouter. In passing the strait, they encountered immense numbers of penguins and whales. In their progress to India, they fell in with some of the South Sea islands, and remarked the eagerness of the natives to obtain nails.
Lieutenant Cook sailed from the Bay of Good Success, January 22nd, and on the 26th, took his departure from Cape Horn, steering into the Pacific Ocean for Otaheite. On Wednesday, March 1st, after a run of 660 leagues, it was found that the ship's latitude and longitude were the same by observation as by the log; a proof of the accuracy with which the navigation was conducted, and of the absence of all remarkable currents. On the 25th, a valuable young man, one of the marines, was lost under circumstances truly lamentable. He had taken a small piece of seal skin, belonging to a servant of the Commander; this trivial theft, partly committed as a joke, was magnified by his comrades into a serious crime, and while he was threatened by the sergeant with exposure and punishment, his mind was so overpowered with the idea of suffering disgrace, that he walked overboard.
On tuesday, April 4th, our navigators saw, for the first time, one of the South Sea islands; and were delighted with the rich appearance of its groves of cocoa and palm trees, which, when contrasted with the dreary land of Terra del Fuego,
