Notwithstanding the difficulties arising from this tide, now its strength is known, the strait may be passed without danger.
Some of the officers started a notion, that Eaheinomauwe was not an island, and that the land might stretch away to the south-east, from between Cape Turnagain and Cape Palliser, there being a space of between twelve and fifteen leagues which had not yet been seen.

Though Lieutenant Cook, from what he had observed the first time he discovered the strait, and from many other concurrent circumstances, had the strongest conviction that they were mistaken, he, nevertheless, resolved to leave no possibility of doubt with respect to an object of so much importance.

For this purpose he gave such a direction to the navigation of the ship, as would most effectually tend to determine the matter.

After a course of two days he called the officers upon deck, and asked them, whether they were not now satisfied that Eaheinomauwe was an island.

To this question they readily answered in the affirmative; and all doubts being removed, the lieutenant proceeded to farther researches.
During Mr.Cook's long and minute examination of the coast of New Zealand, he gave names to the bays, capes, promontories, islands, and rivers, and other places which were seen or visited by him; excepting in those cases where their original appellations were learned from the natives.