was a very great fea. At half past one P. M. to their great fatisfaction, the boat returned on board fafe. They landed, but with much difficulty; and saw several places where the Indians had been, and one they lately had left, where they had a fire, with a great number of pearl efcallop-fhells round it, which fhells they brought on board, with some burnt sticks and green boughs. The weather obliged them to return without investigating the place properly: they faw no part to anchor at with fafety.

On the 16th, they paffed Maria's Íslands, fo named by Tafman; they appear to be the fame as the main land. The land hereabouts is much pleafanter, low, and even; but no figns of a harbour or bay, where a fhip might anchor with safety.

They stood to the eastward for Charlotte's Sound, with a light breeze at north-west, in the morning of the 5th of April, and on the 6th they had the found open, but the wind being down, it obliged them to work up under the western shore, as the tide fets up strong there when it runs down in mid-channel. At ten, the tide being at ebb, they were obliged to come to with the best bower in thirty-eight fathoms, clofe to fome white rocks. As they failed up the found they saw the tops of high mountains covered with fnow, which remains all the year; about five o'clock on the 7th, anchored in Ship Cove, in ten fathoms water.

The two following days were employed in clearing a place on Mortuara Island for erecting tents for the fick (having then feveral on board much afflicted with the fcurvy), the fail-makers and coopers.

On the 9th, they were vifited by three canoes with about fixteen of the natives; and to induce them to bring fish and other provifions, they gave them feveral things, with which they seemed highly pleased. One of their people seeing fomething wrapped up in a better manner than common, had the curiofity to examine what it was; and, to his great furprize, found it to be the head of a man lately killed. They were very apprehenfive of its being forced from them; and particularly the man who feemed most interested in it, whose very flesh crept on his bones for fear of being punished by them, as Captain Cook, on a former voyage, had expreffed his great abhorrence of this unnatural act. They used every method to conceal the head, by fhifting it from one to another; and by figns endeavouring to convince them that there was no fuch thing among them, though they had seen it but a few minutes before. They then took their leave, and went on fhore.

They frequently mentioned Tupia, which was the name of the native of George's Island (or Otaheite,) brought here by the Endeavour, and who died at Batavia; and when they told them he was dead, fome of them feemed to be very much concerned, and, as well as they could understand them, wanted to know whether he was killed, or if he died a natural death. By these questions, they are the fame tribe Captain Cook faw. In the afternoon, they returned again with fifh and fern roots, which they fold for nails and other trifles; though the nails are what they fet the most value on. The man and woman who had the head did not come off again.

Next morning the natives returned, to the number of fifty or fixty, with their chief at their head (as was fuppofed) in five double canoes. They gave their implements of war, ftone hatchets, and clothes, &c. for nails and old bottles, which they put a great value on. A number of the head men came on board, and it was with fome difficulty they got them out of the fhip by fair means; but on the appearance of a musquet with a fixed bayonet, they all went into their canoes very quickly.

On the 11th of May, they felt two fevere fhocks of an earthquake, but received no kind of damage. On the 17th they had the pleasure of feeing the Refolution off the mouth of the Sound. They immediately fent out the boats to her affiftance to tow her

in, it being calm. Both fhips felt uncommon joy at their meeting, after an abfence of fourteen weeks. Here the tranfactions of both fhips commence again.

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Captain Cook knowing that fcurvy-grafs, celery, and other vegetables were to be found in Queen Charlotte's Sound, went the morning after his arrival, at day-break, to look for fome, and returned on board at breakfaft with a boat-load. Being now fatisfied, that enough was to be got for the crews of both fhips, he gave orders that they should be boiled, with wheat and portable broth, every morning for breakfast; and with pease and broth for dinner; knowing from experience, that these vegetables, thus dressed, are extremely beneficial in removing all manner of scorbutic complaints. In the morning of the 20th, he fent afhore, to the watering-place near the Adventure's tent, the only ewe and ram remaining, of thofe which he had brought from the Cape of Good Hope, with intent to leave in this country. Soon after he vifited the feveral gardens Captain Furneaux had caufed to be made and planted with various articles; all of which were in a flourishing state, and, if attended to by the natives, may prove of great utility to them. The next day he fet fome men to work to make' a garden on Long Ifland, which he planted with garden-feeds, roots, &c.

On the 22d in the morning, the ewe and ram he had with fo much care and trouble brought to this place, were both found dead, occafioned, as was fuppofed, by eating fome poisonous plant. Thus his hopes of ftocking this country with a breed of fheep, were blafted in a moment. About noon they were vifited, for the first time since they arrived, by fome of the natives, who dined with them; and it was not a little they devoured. In the evening they were difmiffed with presents.

In the morning of the 24th, they met a large canoe in which were fourteen or fifteen people. One of the first questions they asked was for Tupia, the perfon brought from Otaheite on the former voyage; and they feemed to exprefs fome concern, when they told them he was dead. These people made the fame enquiry of Captain Furneaux when he first arrived.

Nothing worthy of notice happened till the 29th, when feveral of the natives made them a vifit, and brought with them a quantity of fifh, which they exchanged for nails, &c. One of these people Captain Cook took and fhewed him fome potatoes, planted there by Mr. Fannen, mafter of the Endeavour. There feemed to be no doubt of their fucceeding; and the man was fo well pleased with them, that he, of his own accord, began to hoe the earth up about the plants. They next took him to the other gardens, and fhewed him the turnips, carrots, and parfnips, roots which, together with the potatoes, will be of more real use to them than any other articles they had planted. It was eafy to give them an idea of these roots, by comparing them with fuch as they knew.

Two or three families of these people now took up their abode near the fhips, employing themselves daily in fifhing, and fupplying them with the fruits of their labour; the good effects of which were foon felt. For they were by no means such expert as the natives; nor were any of the English methods of fishing equal to theirs.

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On the 2d of June, the fhips being nearly ready to put to fea, Captain Cook fent on fhore two goats, male and female. The former was fomething more than a year old; but the latter was much older. She had two fine kids, fome time before they arrived in Dusky Bay, which were killed by cold. Captain Furneaux alfo put on fhore, in Cannibal Cove, a boar and two breeding fows; fo that there is reafon to hope this country will, in time, be ftocked with thefe animals, if they are not deftroyed by the natives before they become wild; for afterwards they will be in no danger.

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In their excurfion to the east, they met with the largest seal they had ever feen. It was fwimming on the furface of the water, and fuffered them to come near enough to fire at it; but without effect: for, after a chase of near an hour, they were obliged to leave it. By the fize of this animal, it was probably a fea lionefs. It certainly bore much resemblance to the drawing in Lord Anfon's voyage.

Early the next morning, fome of the natives brought a large fupply of fish. One of them agreed to go away with them; but afterwards, that is, when it came to the point, he changed his mind; as did fome others who had promised to go with the Adventure. One of them defired Captain Cook to give his fon a white shirt, which he accordingly did. The boy was fo fond of his new drefs, that he went all over the fhip, prefenting himself before every one that came in his way. This freedom used by him offended Old Will the ram goat, who gave him a butt with his horns, and knocked him backward on the deck. Will would have repeated his blow, had not fome of the people come to the boy's affiftance. The misfortune, however, feemed to him irreparable. The fhirt was dirtied, and he was afraid to appear in the cabin before his father, until brought in by Mr. Forster; when he told a very lamentable story against Goury the great dog (for fo they called all the quadrupeds that were on board,) nor could he be reconciled, till the fhirt was washed and dried. This story, though trifling in itself, will fhew how common it is to mistake these people's meaning, and to afcribe to them cuftoms they never knew even in thought.

About nine o'clock a large double canoe, in which were twenty or thirty people, appeared in fight. The natives on board feemed much alarmed, faying that these were their enemies. Two of them, the one with a spear, and the other with a stone hatchet in his hand, mounted the arm chefts on the poop, and there, in a kind of bravado, bid those enemies defiance; while the others, who were on board, took to their canoe and went afhore, probably to fecure the women and children.

However, they came on board and were very peaceable. A trade foon commenced between the failors and them. It was not poffible to hinder the former from felling the clothes from off their backs for the mereft trifles, things that were neither useful nor curious. This caufed Captain Cook to dismiss the strangers fooner than he would have done.

June the 4th they spent their Royal Mafter's birth-day in feftivity, having the company of captain Furneaux and all his officers. Double allowance enabled the feamen to fhare in the general joy.

During their stay in the found, Captain Cook obferved that this fecond vifit made to this country, had not mended the morals of the natives of either fex. He had always looked upon the females of New Zealand to be more chafte than the generality of Indian women. Whatever favours a few of them might have granted to the people in the Endeavour, it was generally done in a private manner, and the men did not seem to interest themselves much in it. But now, he was told, they were the chief promoters of a fhameful traffic, and that, for a spike-nail, or any other thing they value, they would oblige the women to proftitute themselves, whether they would or no; and even without any regard to that privacy which decency required.

On the 7th of June, at four in the morning, the wind being favourable, they unmoored, and at feven weighed and put to fea, with the Adventure in

company.

Nothing material occurred till the 29th, when Captain Cook was informed the crew of the Adventure was fickly; and this he found was but too true. Her cook was dead, and about twenty of her beft men were down in the fcurvy and flux. At

this time, his fhip had only three men on the fick lift, and only one of them attacked with the fcurvy. Several more, however, began to fhew fymptoms of it, and were put upon the wort; marmalade of carrots, rob of lemons and oranges.

To introd any new article of food among feamen, let it be ever fo much for their good, requires both the example and authority of a commander; without both of which, it will be dropt before the people are fenfible of the benefits refulting from it. Many of the people, officers as well as feamen, at first difliked celery, fcurvy-grafs, &c. being boiled in the peas and wheat; and fome refused to eat it. But as this had no effect on Captain Cook's conduct, this obftinate kind of prejudice by little and little wore off; they began to like it as well as the others.

On the 6th of August, Captain Cook fent for Captain Furneaux to dinner; from whom he learnt that his people were much better, the flux having left them; and the scurvy was at a stand. Some cyder which he happened to have, and which he gave to the scorbutic people, contributed not a little to this happy change. The weather to-day was cloudy, and the wind very unfettled. This feemed to announce the approach of the fo much wifhed for trade-wind; which, at eight o'clock in the evening, after two hours calm, and fome heavy showers of rain, they actually got at fouth-eaft.

The fickly state of the Adventure's crew made it neceffary to make their best way to Otaheite, where they were fure of finding refreshments. Confequently they continued their course to the weft; and at fix o'clock in the evening, land was feen from the mast-head, bearing weft by fouth. Probably this was one of Bougainville's difcoveries. Captain Cook called it Doubtful Island; the getting to a place where they could procure refreshments was more an object at this time than difcovery.

At day-break on the 12th, they difcovered land right a-head, diftant about two miles; fo that day-light advised them of their danger but juft in time. This proved another of these low or half-drowned iflands, or rather a large coral fhoal, of about twenty leagues in circuit.

The next morning at four they made fail, and at day-break faw another of these low islands, which obtained the name of Adventure Ifland. M. de Bougainville very properly calls this low cluster of overflowed ifles the Dangerous Archipelago. The fmoothness of the fea fufficiently convinced them that they were furrounded by them, and how neceffary it was to proceed with the utmost caution, especially in the night.

On the 15th, at five o'clock in the morning, they faw Ofnaburg Island, or Maitea, discovered by Captain Wallis. Soon after they brought to, and waited for the Adventure to come up with them, to acquaint Captain Furneaux, that it was his intention to put into Oaiti-piha Bay, near the fouth-eaft end of Otaheite, in order to get what refreshments they could from that part of the island, before they went down to Matavia. This done, they made fail, and at fix in the evening faw the island bearing weft. They continued to stand on till midnight, when they brought to, till four o'clock in the morning; and then made fail in for the land with a fine breeze at east.

At day-break, they found themfelves not more than half a league from the reef. This made it neceffary to hoift out their boats to tow the fhips off; but all their efforts were not fufficient to keep them from being carried near the reef. A number of the inhabitants came off in canoes from different parts, bringing with them a little fifh, a few cocoa-nuts, and other fruits, which they exchanged for nails, beads, &c. Most of them knew Captain Cook again; and many enquired for Mr. Banks and others, who were with him before; but not one afked for Tupia.

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The calm continuing their fituation became ftill more dangerous. They were, however, not without hopes of getting round the western point of the reef and into the bay, till about two o'clock in the afternoon, when they came before an opening or break in the reef, through which they hoped to get with the fhips. But on fending to examine it, found there was not a fufficient depth of water; though it caufed fuch an indraught of the tide of flood through it, as was very near proving fatal to the Refolution; for as foon as the fhips got into this ftream, they were carried with great impetuofity towards the reef. The moment Captain Cook perceived this, he ordered one of the warping machines, which they had in readiness, to be carried out with about four hundred fathoms of rope; but it had not the leaft effect. The horrors of fhipwreck now ftared them in the face. They were not more than two cables length from the breakers; and yet they could find no bottom to anchor, the only probable means they had left to fave the fhips. They, however, dropped an anchor; but before it took hold, and brought them up, the fhip was in lefs than three fathoms water, and ftruck at every fall of the fea, which broke clofe under their ftern in a dreadful furf, and threatened them every moment with fhipwreck. The Adventure very luckily brought up close upon their bow without ftriking.

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They presently carried out two kedge anchors, with hawfers to each. ground a little without the bower, but in what depth they never knew. upon them, and cutting away the bower anchor, they got the fhip afloat, lay fome time in the greatest anxiety, expecting every minute that either the kedges would come home, or the hawfers be cut in two by the rocks. At length the tide ceased to act in the fame direction. All the boats were ordered to try to tow off the Refolution; and when they faw this was practicable, they hove up the two kedges. At that moment a light air came off from the land, which fo much affifted the boats, that they foon got clear of all danger. Then they ordered all the boats to affist the Adventure; but before they reached her, fhe was under fail with the land breeze, leaving behind her three anchors, her coafting cable, and two hawfers, which were never recovered. Thus they were once more fafe at fea, after narrowly escaping being wrecked on the very island they but a few days before fo ardently wished to be at. The calm, after bringing them into this dangerous fituation, very fortunately continued. For had the fea-breeze, as is ufual, fet in, the Refolution must inevitably have been loft, and probably the Adventure too.

During the time they were in this critical fituation, numbers of the natives were on board and about the fhips. They feemed to be infenfible of danger, fhewed not the least surprize, joy, or fear, when the fhips were striking, and left them a little before fun-fet, quite unconcerned.

They spent the night, which proved fqually and rainy, making fhort boards; and the next morning, being the 17th, they anchored in Oaiti-piha Bay, in twelve fathoms water, about two cables length from the fhore, both fhips being by this time crowded with a great number of the natives, who brought with them cocoa-nuts, plantains, bananoes, apples, yams, and other roots, which they exchanged for nails and beads. To feveral who called themfelves chiefs, Captain Cook made prefents of fhirts, axes and feveral other articles; and in return, they promised to bring hogs and fowls; a promise they never did, nor ever intended to perform.

Early in the morning Captain Cook fent the two launches, and the Refolution's cutter, under the command of Mr. Gilbert, to endeavour to recover the anchors they had left behind them. They returned about noon with the Refolution's bower anchor, but could not recover any of the Adventure's. The natives came off again with fruit,