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

CHAPTER 5
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At 4 a.m.

unmoor'd, and at 6 weigh'd and put to Sea.

At Noon the bay sail'd from bore North 63 degrees West, distant 4 Leagues.

This bay is called by the Natives Tolaga;* (* It still goes by this name.) it is moderately large, and hath in it from 13 to 8 and 7 fathoms, clean sandy bottom and good Anchorage, and is shelterd from all winds except those that blow from the North-East Quarter.

It lies in the Latitude of 38 degrees 22 minutes South, and 4 1/2 Leagues to the Northward of Gable end Foreland.
Off the South point lies a small but high Island, so near to the Main as not to be distinguished from it.


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