Nor was it by any means necessary, to suppose a river, in order to account for the land at the bottom of the bay not being visible.

If the land there was as low as it had been experienced to be in a hundred other parts of the coast, it would be impossible to see it from the station of the ship.

Our commander would, however, have brought the matter to the test of experiments, if the wind had been favourable to such a purpose.

Should any future navigator be disposed to determine the question, whether there is or is not a river in this place, Mr.Cook has taken care to leave the best directions for finding its situation.
On the 22nd, as our voyagers were pursuing their course from Harvey's Bay, they discovered with their glasses that the land was covered with palm-nut trees, which they had not seen from the time of their leaving the islands within the tropic.

They saw also two men walking along the shore, who paid them as little attention, as they had met with on former occasions.