The next visitor to Van Diemen's Land was captain JAMES COOK, with his
Majesty's ships _Resolution_ and _Discovery_. He made the South-west Cape
on Jan. 24, 1777, and steered eastward along the shore, as captain
Furneaux had done, but generally at a greater distance: on the 26th he
anchored in Adventure Bay.

Captain Cook's account of this bay agrees nearly with that of Furneaux;
but he there procured abundance of fish, and had frequent communication
with the natives: his description of them coincides, generally, with what
has been recited in Marion's voyage. The most striking differences
betwixt these people and those captain Cook had seen on the east coast of
New South Wales, were in their language, in having no canoes, and in the
different texture of the hair: in those it was "naturally long and black,
though it be universally cropped short;" whilst in Adventure Bay, "it was
as woolly, as that of any native of Guinea." * In these particulars, as in
some others, they agreed with Dampier's description of the people on the
North-west Coast, who were without canoes, and had woolly hair.

[* See Cook's _Third Voyage_, Vol. I. p. 93-117.]

The following articles, to the conclusion of PART I. of this Section, are
placed somewhat out of their chronological order, for the convenience of
classing together all the discoveries which had no connection with the
British settlement in New South Wales. Those made in vessels from that
settlement, or which may be considered as a consequence of its
establishment, will compose PART II. in uninterrupted order.

BLIGH. 1788.