Hence the lieutenant and his friends were disposed to believe, that the people were destitute of dwellings, as well as of clothes; and that like the other commoner of nature, they spent their nights in the open air.

Tupia himself was struck with their apparently unhappy condition; and shaking his head, with an air of superiority and compassion, said that they were taata enos, 'poor wretches.' On the 25th, our voyagers, at the distance of one mile from the land, were abreast of a point, which Mr.Cook found to lie directly under the tropic of Capricorn; and for this reason he called it Cape Capricorn.

In the night of the next day, when the ship had anchored at a place which was distant four leagues from Cape Capricorn, the tide rose and fell near seven feet; and the flood set to the westward, and the ebb to the eastward.

This circumstance was just the reverse of what had been experienced when the Endeavour was at anchor to the eastward of Bustard Bay.
While our people were under sail, on the 26th, and were surrounded with islands, which lay at different distance from the main land, they suddenly fell into three fathom of water.

Upon this the lieutenant anchored, and sent away the master to sound a channel, which lay between the northernmost island and the main.