Our voyagers observed, that they were stout well-made men, and that they had marked on their bodies the figure of a fish, which was a good emblem of their profession.
Besides passing by St.George's Islands, which had been so named by Captain Byron, our commander made the discovery of four others.

These he called Palliser's Isles, in honour of his particular friend, Sir Hugh Palliser.

The inhabitants seemed to be the same sort of people as those of Tiookea, and, like them, were armed with long pikes.

Captain Cook could not determine with any degree of certainty, whether the group of isles he had lately seen, were, or were not, any of those that had been discovered by the Dutch navigators.

This was owing to the neglect of recording, with sufficient accuracy, the situation of their discoveries.