Other attempts to get inside the reefs were, however, unsuccessful, and after several narrow escapes from shipwreck Cook gave up, to his regret, a complete circumnavigation of the island.

The summer approaching, he wished to refit and recruit in New Zealand before once more standing south.
Norfolk Island was discovered and landed upon on the way, and Queen Charlotte's Sound was once more reached on October 19th.
The Adventure's visit was ascertained from the Maoris, but Cook was much puzzled by incompletely understood accounts of white men having been killed.

As far as could be gathered a ship had been lost on the coast, and Cook was led to believe that this disaster had no reference to the Adventure.
It was found that pigs and fowls left here on the former visit were still in existence, and presumably thriving.

It may here be mentioned, that wherever Cook touched he invariably, so far as his stock allowed, left animals to stock the country, and that New Zealand was, when the settlers eventually came, found to be well supplied with pigs.
After a stay of three weeks the Resolution sailed, on November 10th, for Cape Horn.

She kept farther north than on the last occasion, the object being to pass over new ground, and more completely disprove the existence of any land.
The western part of Tierra del Fuego being reached, Cook followed the shore to the south-east, mapping the outside of this dangerous and inhospitable archipelago.