a passion for high life, always represent the company into which they happen to be thrown as the elite of the country they visit, and hence very false notions get abroad of the depravity and vulgarity of foreigners. Any body, who will read a tour in England, written by a Frenchman, or even by a German, will perceive the source of these errors, too rashly attributed to wilful falsehood and malice. Dr. Clarke* has a wonderful story of a Russian nobleman stealing a hat, and converting it into a jockey cap. And Captain Cook detected a pretended Earee in the act of theft. He ordered the privileged pilferer, with all his followers, out of the ship, and to convince him of the danger of his proceedings, fired two musquets over his head as he was retreating, at which he was so terrified that he leaped out of his canoe and swam to shore. The Captain sent a boat to seize the canoe; this being the only method of gaining restitution. The people on shore pelted the boat with stones; but the Captain, putting off in another boat himself, and causing a great gun to be fired with ball, cleared the beach without bloodshed. In a few hours peace was restored, and the canoes were given up to the first who came to claim them.

In the evening of this day, some enquiries were made after Tupia. When told that he died a natural death, the enquirers expressed neither suspicion nor concern, and Captain Cook thought they would have taken it very quietly had his death been ascribed to violent means.

Since the Endeavour quitted Otaheite, great changes had taken place. The two kingdoms into which that island is divided had been at war. Tootahah, Tubourai Tamaide, and many others who had made acquaintance with the English in their former visit, had fallen in battle. Otoo was now the reigning prince of the larger division, and peace had been renewed.

“A hat had been stolen from our apartments; the servants positively asserted, that some young noblemen, who had been more lavish of their friendship and company than we desired, had gained access to the chambers in our absence and had carried off the hat, with some other moveables of even less value. The fact was inconceivable, and we gave no credit to it. A few days after, being upon an excur sion to the convent of New Jerusalem, 45 versts north of Moscow, some noblemen, to whom our intention was made known the preceding evening at the Societe de Noblesse, overtook us on horseback. One of the party, mounted on an English racer, and habited like a New-market jockey, rode up to the side of the carriage; but his horse being somewhat unruly, he lost his seat, and a gust of wind blew off his cap. My companion immediately descended, and ran to recover it for its owner; but what was his astonishment to perceive his own name, and the name of his hatter, on the lining. It was no other than the identical hat stolen by one of them from our lodgings, now metamorphosed as a cap, although under its altered shape it might not have been recognised but for the accident here mentioned."-Clarke's Travels in Russia.

The events which occurred while our voyagers lay in Oaitapiha harbour were of little moment. A few petty frauds, and more attempts at frauds, on the part of the natives, were the most conspicuous. On the 23rd, Captain Cook had an interview with Waheatua, the ruler of Tiaraboo, who, at the period of the last voyage, was a minor, and called Tearee; but now, having succeeded to his father's authority, he had assumed his father's name. The result of this royal audience was a plentiful supply of pork.

On the 24th, the Adventure's people being in a great measure recovered, the ships put to sea, and arrived the next evening in Matavai Bay. Before they came to anchor the decks were crowded with the Captain's old acquaintance, and the meeting was to all appearance a joyful one. King Otoo and his attendants remained on shore, where a great multitude were gathered around him. Our Commander visited him on the 25th at Oparree. He was a tall personable man, but of weak mind and timid nature. When invited to come on board the ship, he confessed that he was afraid of the guns. Returning to the Bay of Matavai, the Captain found the tents and observatories set on the same ground from which the transit had been observed in 1769. The sick were landed, in number twenty from the Adventure, and one from the Resolution, and a guard of marines set over them, under the command of Lieutenant Edgecumbe, the same, we presume, who gave name to Mount Edgecumbe in New Zealand, and Edgecumbe Bay in New South Wales.

August 27th. Otoo was at last prevailed on to visit the Captain. He came attended with a numerous train, and brought with him a hog, fruits, and Otaheitan cloth, for which he received suitable presents. When Cook went ashore he was met by a venerable lady, the mother of the late Tootahah, who caught him by the hand, and exclaimed with a flood of tears, Tootahah Tiyo no Tootee matty Tootahahanglice, "Tootahah, Cook's friend is dead Tootahah." The Captain was much affected by this effusion of maternal tenderness, and would have mingled his tears with hers, if the suspicious Otoo had not hastily broken short the interview. Some days after, he obtained permission to see the poor woman again, when he gave her an axe, and some other articles.

With one slight exception, when some liberties taken by the sailors with the Otaheitan females occasioned a scuffle, and a cry of murder, the intercourse between the islanders and their visitors was of the most amicable kind. Lieutenant Pickersgill made an excursion up the country, during which he saw the celebrated Oberea. Time and misfortune had lain heavy upon her: her mature comeliness was gone, her

power and state were passed away: she looked both old and poor. Captain Cook, in his narrative of this voyage, gallantly steps forward to vindicate the virtue of the Otaheitan ladies.

On the 2nd of September the vessels arrived at Huaheine, and anchored in Owharre harbour. The two commanders were received by the natives with great cordiality, and trade was commenced on the most amicable terms. Hogs and poultry, which had been difficult to obtain at Otaheite, were plentiful in Huaheine, an important consideration to a crew whose health required fresh provision. Cook, together with Furneaux and Forster, paid a visit to Oree, the chief of the island. Oree was so keenly affected by meeting with his old friend, that he embraced him with tears. We have already remarked that barbarians are generally lachrymose, though capable of sustaining great bodily pain.

A stoic of the woods, a man without a tear,

is a very unusual character among savages. The aged Oree appears to have been the most amiable personage in the South Sea, and a sincere friend to the English, as he shewed on a very trying occasion. On the 4th, when Captain Cook went to the trading place, he was informed that one of the natives had behaved with great insolence. The man was standing equipped in his war habit, with a club in each hand. Cook, however, soon quelled his spirit, taking the clubs from him, and breaking them before his eyes. Meanwhile, Mr. Sparrman (the Swedish traveller), having unguardedly gone ashore to botanize, was assaulted by two men, who deprived him of every thing but his trowsers, gave him a severe beating with his own hanger, and then made off. Another of the natives brought a piece of cloth to cover him, and conducted him to the trading place. As soon as the people there assembled saw him in this plight, they fled in great consternation. Captain Cook assured them that the innocent should be unmolested, and went to complain of the outrage to Oree, whose grief and indignation were inexpressible. He wept aloud, and harangued his subjects earnestly, reproaching them with their perfidy and ingratitude. He then took a minute account of the things which Sparrman had been robbed of, and having promised to use his utmost efforts to procure their restitution, desired to go into the Captain's boat. The natives, fearful for the safety of their prince, protested against this confidence: they wept, intreated, and even attempted to pull him out of the boat, but all in vain. Even the remonstrances of Captain Cook were unavailing. Oree's sister alone approved of his going. The boat put off in search of the robbers. Restitution was at length made, and peace restored. Cook justly observed, that another chief may never be found,

who would act like Oree.

Before the ships left Huaheine, Captain Cook took an affectionate leave of his friend, and in addition to the inscribed plate which he left on the former voyage, gave him another small piece of copper, lettered thus: "Anchored here his Britannic Majesty's ships, the Resolution and Adventure. September, 1773." These plates, with some medals, were put into a bag, and Oree promised never to part with them, but to produce them whenever a European ship arrived in Huaheine. On the 7th September the ships sailed. From Huaheine Captain Furneaux carried Omai, a young native, whose visit to England was the subject of much conversation.

The vessels called at Ulietea, where nothing occurred worthy of record. On the 17th they sailed westward; on the 23d discovered land, which was named Harvey's Island. On the 1st of October they reached the isle called Middleburg by Tasman, but in the native language Eaoowe. The inhabitants were of the most friendly and pacific disposition; not so much as a stick was seen in their hands. Their language is nearly the same as that of the Society Islands, so that Omai conversed with them without difficulty. Eaoowe is a most beautiful spot, and is rendered delightful by the good nature and innate courtesy of the natives. So generous were the islanders, that they appeared more desirous of giving than of receiving, and threw whole bales of cloth into the boats, without waiting for any return. The chief or king was called Tioony. He had several interviews with the British Commanders, and behaved in the most amicable manner. Captain Cook presented him with a choice collection of garden seeds.

From Eaoowe our navigators sailed to Tongataboo (the Amsterdam of Tasman). This is a beautiful island, and highly cultivated: not a foot of ground is wasted. The inhabitants were friendly and peaceable, but a little addicted to theft. Instead of provisions, they brought nothing but cloth, matting, &c., for which the sailors were improvident enough to barter their clothes, a traffic the Captain found it necessary to prohibit. When the people found that nothing but eatables were saleable, they furnished them in abundance. Even a few old rags were sufficient to purchase a fowl or a pig. Captain Cook had an interview with the King, who preserved a stupid and inflexible gravity, very different from the energetic gaiety of his subjects. Such is dignity at Tongataboo. Captain Cook called the group to which Eaoowe and Tongataboo belong, the Friendly Islands. Like most of the isles of the Pacific, they are guarded by coral reefs, which makes them of dangerous access; but by breaking the force of the waves, render the harbours very secure. Forster discovered several new plants. Hogs and poultry were the only domestic animals. The inhabitants were considered by

some of our voyagers to be a handsomer race than the Otaheitans, but with this opinion Cook did not coincide. But he does ample justice to the pleasantness of their manners. The women, in particular, he describes as the merriest creatures he had ever seen; and provided any one seemed pleased with their company, they would continue for hours chattering by his side, quite regardless whether they were understood or not. Yet they were not destitute of modesty—at least, they had tact enough to "assume a virtue, if they had it not." It may be remarked, that Cook gives a more favourable picture of the female morality, even of Otaheite, than former or subsequent visitors have confirmed. Perhaps he let the ladies understand that chastity was in his eyes their greatest ornament: and neither savage nor civilized impudence could stand his eye and his frown.

A very singular fashion prevailed in these islands. Almost all the people had one or both of their little fingers amputated. A similar practice is found among the women of New South Wales.

October the 7th. From Tongataboo Captain Cook sailed for Queen Charlotte's Sound, where he designed to take in wood and water, and make preparations for pursuing his discoveries in the south. Having passed the island of Pilstart, discovered by Tasman, he came in sight of New Zealand on the 21st, and anchored at the distance of eight or ten leagues from Table Cape.

It was the boast of the circumnavigator Malespini, that he had done no harm during his voyage. Cook was not satisfied with such negative self-congratulation. It was his ambition to be remembered for good. Wisely conceiving, that to promote agriculture was to promote civilization, and that to increase the comforts of barbarians is to raise them in the social scale, he had provided himself at the Cape with a great variety of garden seeds, and with as many domestic animals as the ship could conveniently carry, which he distributed among the islands where he called. These presents were not very rapturously received; and though he sometimes obtained promises that the animals should be allowed to multiply, there was little dependence on the stability of such resolutions.

The weather about this time became very unfavourable, and it was not till the 3d of September that the Resolution anchored in Ship Cove, Queen Charlotte's Sound. During this tempest the Adventure was separated from her companion vessel, and was not seen nor heard of during the sequel of the voyage.

There was no remarkable incident during Captain Cook's sojourn in New Zealand. He was chiefly employed in repairing the ship, drying the provisions, &c. There was some fear of the biscuit falling short,