1773.
May.
CHAP.VI.
Passage from Dusky Bay to Queen Charlotte's Sound.—Junction with the Adventure.—Transactions during our stay there.
Tuesday 11.Having hoisted in our boat, which returned loaden with seals, we stood to the northward, with a heavy S.W. swell, and numerous sooty albatrosses and blue petrels attending us. As we advanced along shore, the mountains seemed to decrease in height, and in four and twenty hours the thermometer rose 7½ degrees, having been at 46° on the day after we left Dusky Bay, and standing at 53½° the next morning at eight o'clock.Thursday 12.
On the 14th, being off Cape Foul-wind, our favourable gale left us, as if it meant to authenticate the propriety of the denomination, and we really had a contrary wind. It blew a hard gale all the 16th,Sunday 16. attended with heavy rains, and we kept plying the whole day, making one of our boards close in shore under Rock's Point.
At four o'clock in the morning on the 17th we stood to the eastward with a fair wind, so that we were abreast of Cape Farewell at eight o'clock. Here we saw the land appearing low and sandy near the sea-shore, though it rose into high snow-capt mountains in the interior parts. Vast flocks of the little diving petrel, (procellaria tridactyla,) wereseen
