P.M.Moderate breezes at North-West by North and North with which we stood close upon a Wind to the Westward.

At sunset the Southermost point of land, which I afterwards named South Cape,* (* South Cape is the southern point of Stewart Island.

Cook's position for it is wonderfully exact.) and which lies in the Latitude of 47 degrees 19 minutes South, Longitude 192 degrees 12 minutes West from Greenwich, bore North 38 degrees East, distant 4 Leagues, and the Westermost land in sight bore North 2 degrees East.

This last was a small Island, lying off the point of the Main.* (* Long Island, which lies, with others, on the west side of Stewart Island.) I began now to think that this was the Southermost land, and that we should be able to get round it by the West, for we have had a large hollow swell from the South-West ever since we had the last gale of wind from that Quarter, which makes one think there is no land in that direction.

In the Night it began to blow, so that at or before daylight we were brought under our 2 Courses; but at 8 a.m.