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Captain Cook’s Journal During the First Voyage Round the World

CHAPTER 2
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At 1/2 past 1 a.m.the Wind Shifted from South-South-West to East-South-East.

Tackt and stood South-West; at 6 Saw the Land to the Westward making like several Islands.

At 8 two Small Islands laying off a low Point of Land bore West by South, distant 3 Leagues, and the small Island we saw last night bore North-North-West.
This I take to be the Island of Evouts, it is about one League in Circuit, and of a Moderate height and lies 4 Leagues from the Main.

Near the South Point of it are some Peaked rocks pretty high above Water; the wind coming to the Southward we did but just weather this Island; in passing it, sounded and had 40 fathoms Water, sand, and broken Shells.

At Noon it bore North-East distance one League, and the low point of land before mentioned South 17 degrees West distant 4 or 5 Leagues.


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