he largest oyster shells I ever
saw." An account, said to have been obtained from the blacks, published
in a work on Australian discovery (anonymous, Sydney), agrees as far as
it goes with those of Cook and Banks, and it is almost unnecessary to say
the ship was at first taken for a large bird.

SUTHERLAND'S DEATH.

Whilst here, a seaman named Forbes (Forby, in the Muster Roll)
Sutherland, died of consumption, from which he had suffered throughout
the voyage, was buried on shore, and the point named Point Sutherland in
his memory. The anonymous pamphlet referred to above, says that Cook does
not give the cause of Sutherland's death, and that he had been fatally
wounded by the blacks whilst trying to secure a metal plate he had found
affixed to a tree, recording that the Dutch had previously been on the
spot. The pamphlet goes on to say that Cook suppressed these facts in
order to have the credit of being the first discoverer, but that the
plate had been secured by some one and deposited in the British Museum.
Unfortunately, Cook does give the cause of Sutherland's death, and the
plate is not in the British Museum, nor has it ever been heard of there.
Before leaving, an inscription was cut on a tree near the watering place,
giving the ship's name and date; the English colours were displayed on
shore every day during their stay, but they could not establish any
friendly intercourse with the blacks. A plate has since been attached to
the rocks about fifteen feet above high water, and as near as possible to
the supposed place of landing.

After leaving Botany Bay the coast was followed up to the north, and Cook
noted an "entrance" which he thought might prove a safe anchorage, to
which he gave the name of Port Jackson, after Mr. George Jackson, one of
the Secretaries to the Admiralty. Within this entrance is now the city of
Sydney, and it was to this place that Captain Phillip removed his
headquarters when he had discovered the unsuitability of Botany Bay for
settlement. Broken Bay, named from the number of small islands therein,
was passed, and the voyage was rendered very slow by the light northerly
winds, and passing Cape Hawke, he found the set of the current had placed
him twelve miles in advance, when reckoned by the log, of his real
position given by observation.

Almost the only thing to be seen beyond the outline of the coast was the
constantly recurring smoke; one point received the name of Smoky Cape on
accou