J. C. Beaglehole—Discovery of New Zealand–(1939) p. 97

"First among the improvers on Cook came Cook." In his second voyage with the "Resolution" and "Adventure" he set out to establish the existence of, or to demolish the illusion of the Great Southern Continent (Terra Australis Incognita). Sailing northwards up the West coast of the South Island he rounded Cape Farewell on 17th May 1773 and recorded "About six leagues to the eastwards of Cape Farewell there seems to be a spacious Bay covered from the sea by a low point of land, and is I believe the same as Tasman first anchored in. Blind Bay, which is to the S.E. of this, seems to extend a long way in to the South, the sight in this direction was not bounded by any land. I think that it is not improbable that it may communicate with Queen Charlotte's Sound."

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