Tuesday 26th Moderate breezes Easterly and hazey weather. Standing to the southward close upon a wind at Noon was in the Latd of 35°..10' So and Longd 188°..20' Wt. The Island of the Three Kings N. 26° West distt 22 Leage. In this situation had no land in sight and yet by observation we are in the Latitude of the Bay of Islands and by my reckoning but 30 Leagues to the westward of the North Cape from whence it appears that the northern part of this Land must be very narrow otherwise we must have seen some part of the west side of it —