On receiving this intelligence he immediately brought to, with the ship's head off from the land, and gave a signal for the Friendship to do the same.

They lay to all night, and the next morning were surprised with the sight of a most mountainous coast, bearing from north-east by east to west-north-west, about five or six leagues distant.
This proved sufficiently that the land seen the preceding day could not be Egmont Island, and Lieutenant Shortland was inclined to think that this was united to it.

At six in the morning he bore away west by north, and west by north half north, as the land trended, running along the shore at five or six leagues distance.

The most eastern point of this land he called Cape Henslow, the most western which was then in sight, Cape Hunter.

Between these two points the land is very singularly mountainous, the summits of the mountains rising among the clouds to a prodigious height.