As a memorial of our people's having touched at the same harbour, Captain Cook wrote, as follows, on the other side of the parchment: _Naves Resolution et Discovery de Rege Magnae Britanniae, Decembris, 1776._ He then put it again into the bottle, together with a silver twopenny piece of 1772.

Having covered the mouth of the bottle with a leaden cap, he placed it, the next morning in a pile of stones, erected for the purpose, upon a little eminence on the north shore of the harbour, and near to the place where it was first found.

In this position it cannot escape the notice of any European, whom accident or design may bring into the port.

Here the captain displayed the British flag, and named the place Christmas Harbour, from our voyagers having arrived in it on that festival.
After our commander had finished the business of the inscription, he went in his boat round the harbour, to examine what the shore afforded.

His more particular object was to look for drift-wood; but he did not find a single piece throughout the whole extent of the place.