Here our navigators thought they saw a clear opening before them, and began to hope that they were once more out of danger.

Of this hope, however, they were soon deprived; on which account, the lieutenant gave to the headland the name of Cape Flattery.

After he had steered some time along the shore, for what was believed to be the open channel, the petty officer at the mast-head cried aloud, that he saw land ahead, which extended quite round to the three islands, and that between the ship and them there was a large reef.

Mr.Cook, upon this, ran up the mast-head himself, and plainly discerned the reef, which was so far to the windward, that it could not be weathered.

As to the land which the petty officer had supposed to be the main, our commander was of opinion, that it was only a cluster of small islands.