In his return to the ship, Captain Cook brought with him a quantity of seals and penguins, which were an acceptable present to the crew; not from the want of provisions, which were plentiful in every kind, but from a change of diet.

Any sort of fresh meat was preferred by most on board to salt.

The captain himself was now, for the first time, tired of the salted meats of the ship; and though the flesh of the penguins could scarcely vie with bullock's liver, its freshness was sufficient to render it comparatively agreeable to the palate.

To the bay in which he had been, he gave, the name of Possession Bay.
The land in which this bay lies, was at first judged by our navigators to be part of a great continent.

But, upon coasting round the whole country, it was proved to a demonstration that it was only an island of seventy leagues in circuit.