The ship was this day in some danger.

It suddenly fell calm, and our voyagers were left to the mercy of the current, close by the isles, where no sounding could be found with a line of a hundred and eighty fathoms.
The lands or islands, which lay around the vessel in every direction, were so numerous, that they could not be counted.

At this crisis a breeze sprung up, which happily relieved the captain and his company from the anxiety the calm had occasioned.
Amidst the number of islands, that were continually seen by our navigators, there was only one on which no inhabitants were discerned.
This consisted chiefly of a remarkable peaked rock, which was only accessible to birds, and which obtained the name of the Monument.
In the farther course of the ship to the southward, our navigators drew near to certain lands, which they found to consist of one large island, the southern and western extremities of which extended beyond their sight.

Three or four smaller ones lay off its north side.

To the two principal of these Captain Cook gave the name of Montagu and Hinchinbrook; and the large island he named Sandwich, in honour of his noble patron, the Earl of Sandwich.