"CONTENTdm"@en . "An authentic narrative of a voyage performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke, in his Majesty's ships Resolution and Discovery, during the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1591663"@en . "British Columbia Historical Books Collection"@en . "An authentic narrative of a voyage performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke, in his Majesty's ships Resolution and Discovery, during the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780"@en . "Ellis, William"@en . "2015-10-28"@en . "[1782]"@en . "\"Ellis was surgeon's mate, first in the Discovery, later in the Resolution the rank of \"Assistant surgeon\" being unknown in the Navy at that time, ref. Holmes. He assumed the naturalist's duties after the death of Anderson and his plates are especially interesting, ref. T. Pearse (no.438). When about to undertake a scientific expedition for the King of Sweden, he was killed in an accident; ref. Obituary in the Gentlemen's Magazine, London, vol.55, pt.5, 1785. Published against the instructions of the Admiralty which required the surrender of all records of the voyage. The plates are among the earliest published of the voyage. Reprinted 1783 and 1784 as second and third editions respectively.\" -- Strathern, G. M. , & Edwards, M. H. (1970). Navigations, traffiques & discoveries, 1774-1848: A guide to publications relating to the area now British Columbia. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 83."@en . ""@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcbooks/items/1.0222836/source.json"@en . "358 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " J-\n*\n_. :\u00C2\u00AB3SgvSfe _ \t\n AN AUTHENTIC\nN A R\nA T I V E\nOF A\nVI OlYl A G E\nPERFORMED BY\nCaptain CO 0 K and Captain CLERKE^\nIK HIS MAJESTY S SHIPS\nRESOLUTION and DISCOVERY,\nDuring the Years 1776, 1777* 177S, 1779, and 1780^\n \u00E2\u0080\u00A2smu^\n AN AUTHENTIC\nNARRATIVE\nOF A\nO Y AlG E\nPERFORMED BY\nCaptain COOK and Captain CLERKE,\nIN HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS\nHESOLUTION AND DISCOVERY\nDuring the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779* and 1780;\nIN SEARCH OF A\nNORTH-WEST PASSAGE\nBetween the Continents of Asia and AM\u00C2\u00A3RicAt\nI NCLUDJNG \u00C2\u00A7M\nA faithful AccounV of all their Discoveries, and the\nunfortunate Death of Captain COOK.\nillustrated with\nA C H A R T and a Variety of C U T S.\nBy W. E L L I S,\nASSISTANT SURGEON TO BOTH VESSELS,\nVOL. I\nLONDON,\nPrinted for G. Robinson, Pater^nofter Row; J. Sewell?\nCornhill;.?and J. Deerett, Piccadilly.\nMpCCLXXXJI.\n \u00C2\u00A3\n/Sh ozs\nf III\n(\u00C2\u00A3?\na\n//\nj 3fq.\nmm\nf ft'\nf/J\n\u00C2\u00ABe<9 ^m\u00C2\u00BB\n CONTENTS\nC fit A P. I*\nCT3 ti E jhips put in commiffion\u00E2\u0080\u0094fall down to Long\n~* Reach\u00E2\u0080\u0094proceed to Plymouth\u00E2\u0080\u0094-the Kefelution falls f$r\nthe Cape of Good Hope\u00E2\u0080\u0094the Difcovery follows feme tiMe\nafter her arrival there\u00E2\u0080\u0094both 0ps leave the Cape, and\nproceed to'the fouthward\u00E2\u0080\u0094difcover Marions Ifles\u00E2\u0080\u0094and\nthe ifland of Deflation\u00E2\u0080\u0094proceedings there, and departure \u00E2\u0080\u0094feme account of the ijland* t\n.-X. .. . CHAP. II. * :\nThe Jhips proceed to Van-Diemerfs Land\u00E2\u0080\u0094arrival in Adventure Bay\u00E2\u0080\u0094meet with no good water\u00E2\u0080\u0094^catcb plenty of\nftfh\u00E2\u0080\u0094parties fent to cut wood^\u00E2\u0080\u0094feme of the natives make\ntheir Appearance\u00E2\u0080\u0094defcription of them\u00E2\u0080\u0094are frightened by\nthe dlfcharge of a mufqujefy and run into the woods\u00E2\u0080\u0094-^\npay us another vlfit\u00E2\u0080\u0094a farther defcription of them, and\nof Adventure Bay. h H\nC H A I*. III. I <\nDepdrture from Van-Diemetfs Land\u00E2\u0080\u0094arrival at Neiu\nZealand\u00E2\u0080\u0094feme of the natives venture aloing-Jide\u00E2\u0080\u0094appear\nfufpicious and diflrujlful\u00E2\u0080\u0094the tents ereded on Jhore\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nbrew fpruce-beer\u00E2\u0080\u0094filthinefs of the New ILealanders\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nTiu-drrooa's attachment to Captain Cook and Omai\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nKihooraht the chief who killed the unfortunate Mr, Rowe,\nvijits the Jhips; is difllked by his countrymen\u00E2\u0080\u0094the Difcovery drags her anchor in a fquall,\u00E2\u0080\u0094preparations for\nleaving New Zealand\u00E2\u0080\u0094Tiu-arrooa and another boy beg\nto accompany Omai \u00E2\u0080\u0094the mother of the former inconfole-\nuble*-our departure, 24\nA a C M A r.\n I O N T E N T S,\n\"~ \"7 CHAP. IV.\nPafs through CooPs Straits\u00E2\u0080\u0094difcover an ifland\u00E2\u0080\u0094affords \ngerous on account of the rocks\u00E2\u0080\u0094arrival there\u00E2\u0080\u0094are informed that Malla-wagga is King\u00E2\u0080\u0094the Captains vi-\nfit him, hut are difappolnted Malla-wagga pays\nhomage to Powlahow\u00E2\u0080\u0094the captains accompany Powlahow\nlo Moa, to be prefent at a ceremony called Anache\u00E2\u0080\u0094\naccount of that ceremony\u00E2\u0080\u0094arrival at Middleburgh\t\ndeparture for Otapeipe. 70\n> r...M* -CHAP. IX. % -;\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0----;,-\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nRecount of the Friendly Iflands\u00E2\u0080\u0094produce\u00E2\u0080\u0094animalsT-rde-\nfcription of the natives\u00E2\u0080\u0094drefs\u00E2\u0080\u0094houfes\u00E2\u0080\u0094food\u00E2\u0080\u0094rcookery\u00E2\u0080\u0094-\namufements\u00E2\u0080\u0094manufaclures\u00E2\u0080\u0094canoes\u00E2\u0080\u0094burial places\u00E2\u0080\u0094 funeral ceremonies\u00E2\u0080\u0094form of government-\u00E2\u0080\u0094weapons, 85\nI%1--/-.. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0-. c h a p. x, I - \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0/\u00E2\u0080\u00A2'#\u00E2\u0080\u00A2'\n(,eave the Friendly IJks\u00E2\u0080\u0094the Difcovery carries away her\nmain-top-mafl in a fquail\u00E2\u0080\u0094difcover an ifland\u00E2\u0080\u0094-feme of the\nnatives put off-\u00E2\u0080\u0094ajbort defcription of them and the ifland\u00E2\u0080\u0094\ncontinue our courfe 4o Otaheitee\u00E2\u0080\u0094and anchor in Ohitapeab\nharbour\u00E2\u0080\u0094receive intelligence of the Spaniards having been\nthere\u00E2\u0080\u0094who'had erecled a houfe and crofs on Jhore\u00E2\u0080\u0094leave\nthree of their people there, and depart for Lima\u00E2\u0080\u0094tliey\nreturn, and after a jhort flay take away, thofe they had\nlefi-^and again depart for Lima\u00E2\u0080\u0094Orette, the friend op\nM.\n C O N- T Bi N T S,\nM* Bougainville, vifits us\u00E2\u0080\u0094feme account of the placed\nthe Moral of Wyeatuah\u00E2\u0080\u0094ungenerous behaviour of the\nSpaniards refpetting us\u00E2\u0080\u0094leave Ohitapeah, and arrive a\u00C2\u00A3\nMatavaBay\u00E2\u0080\u0094Otoo vifits the captains. 119\nC H A P. XI.\nOmai finds his fifler married\u00E2\u0080\u0094her hufband's behaviour \u00C2\u00B1~he is\nled into temptation, and turned out of the Jhip\u00E2\u0080\u0094the natives\nvery ingenious at fabricating flories\u00E2\u0080\u0094an inflance of it\u00E2\u0080\u0094the\npeople ofOtaheitee engaged in a war with thofe of Imaio--*-\nthe caufe of that war\u00E2\u0080\u0094a human facrifice' is offered id the\ngod of war by Tohaw\u00E2\u0080\u0094feme defcription of the place of\nfacrifice\u00E2\u0080\u0094Tohaw and his friends Potatow and Tapaow9\nfail for Imaio\u00E2\u0080\u0094Otoo's behaviour\u00E2\u0080\u0094is threatened by 'Tohaw\u00E2\u0080\u0094we fail for Imaic\u00E2\u0080\u0094the-natives Jleal two of our\ngoats---arrival at Huaheine\u00E2\u0080\u0094lofe one of our quadrants\u00E2\u0080\u0094*\nthe thief taken\u00E2\u0080\u0094threatens Omai, and is again confined but\nmakes his efcape\u00E2\u0080\u0094arrival at Uriatea\u00E2\u0080\u0094two of our people\nleave the Jhips\u00E2\u0080\u0094are at length taken\u00E2\u0080\u0094leave Uriatea, and\nJleer for Bora-bora\u00E2\u0080\u0094feme account of the feciety of Ar-\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 I %> \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 .\u00C2\u00A7 'I I^\nCHAP. XII.\nreots*\nDepart from the Society Ifles\u00E2\u0080\u0094difcover a low fandy\nifland\u00E2\u0080\u0094catch manyfijb and turtle\u00E2\u0080\u0094nearly lofe two of the\nDifcovery9s men\u00E2\u0080\u0094leave the ifland\u00E2\u0080\u0094defcription of it\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\namoving flocks of birds\u00E2\u0080\u0094proceed to the northward\u00E2\u0080\u0094fee\nmore land\u00E2\u0080\u0094anchor off A'tout, one of the Sandwich Ifles\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nproceedings there\u00E2\u0080\u0094the Refelution drags her anchor, and\nflands out tofea\u00E2\u0080\u0094ihe king and queen vifitCaptain Clerke\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00C2\u00BB\nthe Difcovery fails\u00E2\u0080\u0094both jhips anchor sff Oneehow, an*\nother of the Sandwich Ifles\u00E2\u0080\u0094tranfaclions there-\u00E2\u0080\u0094fome account of thofe ijlands* 162\nCHAP. XIII. 7f\nWe depart for the northward\u00E2\u0080\u0094fall in with the north-weft\ncoaft of America\u00E2\u0080\u0094trace the coafl as well as the wind and\ntveattih* permit\u00E2\u0080\u0094are put to an allowance of water\u00E2\u0080\u0094\ndifi\n CONTENTS.\ndifcover King George's Sound\u00E2\u0080\u0094where we anchor\u00E2\u0080\u0094the\nnatives vifit us\u00E2\u0080\u0094account of mem, and of our tranfaclhns\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 there\u00E2\u0080\u0094departure from Kirfe Qejoxge's Sound, 180\n\u00C2\u00A7 ; . 7 C HAP. XIV.' ,J|7.-, 7;,' , '\nRecount of King George's Sound\u00E2\u0080\u0094produce\u00E2\u0080\u0094whmls-~-in-\nhabitants\u00E2\u0080\u0094 temper\u00E2\u0080\u0094drefs\u00E2\u0080\u0094houffs\u00E2\u0080\u0094foodrrrcwkery\u00E2\u0080\u0094manu*\nfailures\u00E2\u0080\u0094canoes\u00E2\u0080\u0094fijhing-tackle\u00E2\u0080\u0094weapons\u00E2\u0080\u0094language.-\n209,\nC H A P. XV.\nPeparture from King George's Sound--the Refolution\nfprings a leak\u00E2\u0080\u0094experience much blowing weather\u00E2\u0080\u0094continue to trace the coafl\u00E2\u0080\u0094Captain Cook goes onjhore-^we\ndifcover Sandwich Sound\u00E2\u0080\u0094and anchor there\u00E2\u0080\u0094feme of the\nAmericans make their appear ance--~defcription of them\u00E2\u0080\u0094*\nweigh our anchors and fland on, but the weather proving\npad, are at night obliged to let them go again\u00E2\u0080\u0094more of the\nnatives vifit us, hut behave infolently\u00E2\u0080\u0094account of them\u00E2\u0080\u0094'\nproceed through the Sound\u00E2\u0080\u0094feme account of it. 230\n,j\u00C2\u00A7C H A P. XVL If-\nf,eave Sandwich Sound, and continue to trace the coafl\u00E2\u0080\u0094*\ndifcover the river Turn-again\u00E2\u0080\u0094iran)actions during our\ncourfe up antfidown the river\u00E2\u0080\u0094occurrences during our run\nWni the coqjl fill our arrivaf ti\u00C2\u00A3Proyjdence Bay. 249\n||7 . '.-; c h a ^r|.xvii. '\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 -'J||:7\n%ranfq\u00C2\u00A7lons and occurrences at the ifland of XJn^\nlafchka-r-we depart from thence, and continue to trace the\nwi;ifiii 'w$-- ?\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 28x\nCHAP. XVIII.\n^ranfaclions till our departure from the Tfchutfehi Nofs*\n$ 1 '' il ! 3I\u00C2\u00B0\nf CHAP.\n CONTENTS,\ni^^. CHAP.- XIX* \u00E2\u0096\u00A0; ;. '>.r^M\nblred our courfe to the American Jhore\u00E2\u0080\u0094falt in wiWthi\nice\u00E2\u0080\u0094numerous herds of fea-horfes, or morfe, upon it\u00E2\u0080\u0094*\nfee land, which Captain Cook denominates Icy Cape\u00E2\u0080\u0094\ntrace the ice-^-difcover the Afiatic continent, which we\ncontinue to trace till we again arrive at the Tfchutfchi\nIBB 333\n*\nE R H A\nTage 5, line 3, for ofiread.oL P. 18, 1. 3, for as, r. who, P* it*\n1. l J, for tops r. top. P. 26, 1. 17, for their jrillis. P. 34, 1. 8,\nfor to r. on. P. 50, 1. 7, for man r many. ^J?.tiao, 1- ,.M dele \u00C2\u00A30.\nfpf 143, 1. 10, for here r. there. P. 163, 1. o\ /o> ~aa deg, a* miri. Ei\n\u00C2\u00BB-. aoa deg. aa min. E. P. 17a. 1.14, for a th r. a4th. P. 194,1. 24,\n* for abounds r. abounded, P. 196, 1. 6, for getitfig r. getting; 1. 7,\nfar getting r. forming. P. aio, 1. ,6, infert pait. P. aa8,1. z*forz\nput k. P. a8a, 1. ia, for wc /-. we. P. ao5,\u00C2\u00A3 5,/or the .r. the. P\n,.30.$, I. a, from the bottom, for or r.for* P. 316, for lfcbiitpc&y t'\n* ^fchutjcbf* P. 3*5^1. 57 for top r/tpps. P.,346, J. ,15, /or bitds r\u00C2\u00AB;\n549, 1. 13, for aud r. and\ny\u00C2\u00BBr plung r. plunge, P. 35 a, 1. 3, /or 8, r, 186.\n50, lw5ty from the bottom^\n DIRECTIONS for placing the CUT S.\nVOL. L\nChart of the Difcoveries, &c.\nView of the Ifland of Defolation\n \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Market-place at Amfterdam\n1 a Hut and Plantation at Amfterdam\nCanoe of the Friendly Iflands\nMan of O'taheite in a Mourning Drefs\nView in the Ifland of O'nechow\nNative of King George's Sound\n\" Sandwich Sound\nPage I v.\n72 vx\n95-\n110^\n130^\n175 v\n191\n236\n--*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nV O L. II.\nHut on the Weft \u00E2\u0082\u00ACoaft of America\nMan of U'nalafchka\nWoman of U'nalafchka\nView of Karaka-cooah Bay in O'whyhee\nMan of Sandwich Iflands\nWoman of Sandwich Iflands\nView^of the Huts and a Boat-houfe at O'whyhee\nDouble Canoe of Sandwich Iflands\nView of a Morai at O'whyhee\n. in O'whyhee with one of the Prieft's Houfes\nKamtfchadale travelling in Winter\nView of the Town of St. Peter and St. Paul\nWoman of Kamtfchatka\nH\n45\n46\n140\nIS\u00C2\u00B0\n165\n180\n182\n207\n237\n23$\nw\n UY^ t^fy tll'i\nC^^w^K^ Vi/tf ^ in commijjion\u00E2\u0080\u0094fall dowii to\nLong Reach\u00E2\u0080\u0094proceed to Ply mouth\u00E2\u0080\u0094-the\nReflation fails for the Cape of Good Hope\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094the Difcovery follows fome time after\n1 her arrival there\u00E2\u0080\u0094both Jhips leave the\nCape} and proceed to the fonthward\u00E2\u0080\u0094difcover Marions ifes\u00E2\u0080\u0094and the if and of\nDeflation\u00E2\u0080\u0094proceedings there, and departure\u00E2\u0080\u0094fofne account of the if and.\n1N February 14th, 1776, the Refolii-\ntioii and Difcovery -Were put iri\ncommiffion, and the pendants hoifted. After Undergoing a thorough repair, &c. in\nthe dry dock, they were mooted along fide\nthe hulk, and continued in that fituation,\ntaking in the neceflary ftores, till the 12th\nof May, when the Difcovery fell down to\nGalleons. Some days after the Refolution\nfollowed, and anchored in Long Reach,\nVol. L B -?& and\n and the Difcovery having received heif\ngunners ftores on board, proceeded to the\nfeme place, and after a ftxort ftay, both ve\u00C2\u00A3-\nfels fell down to the Nore, where the Resolution remained. The Difcovery had orders to make the beft of her way to Plymouth, but contrary winds having obliged\nher to put into Portland, it, was near a\nweek before fhe arrived there.\nAbout a fortnight after, the Resolution\nanchored in the Sound. From this time\nto July 12th, every body was afiiduoufly\nemployed in compleating her ftoek, when\nin the afternoon of the fame* day, fher\nweighed, and made fail for the Cape of\nGood Hope. The Difcovery was: equally\nprepared for fea ; but Captain Clerke's affairs detained him in town a confiderabls\ntime after, and he did not arrive in Plymouth till the firft of Auguft.\nIn the afternoon fhe got up her anchor.,\nand made fail likewife for the Cape.\nOn the 7 th in the morning, they faw\nGape Finifterre, bearing S. S. E. J E. di-\nftant\n ( 3 )\nftant five or fix leagues, and in the afternoon of the 13th faw Porto Sanclo, and\nthe next day Madeira. On the 26th and\n27th, paffed the iflands Sal, St. Nicholas,\nand Bonavifta, and early the next7 morning flood in for Porto Praya bay, as Captain Clerke was not without hbpes^of\nfinding the Refolution there.\nThey now foon loft the N. E. trade\nwind, it fluffing to the S. W. but upon\napproaching the equinoctial, it gradually\nveered round to the S. E. September\n24th, in the evening, the corporal of\nmarines fell overboard and was drowned.\nOctober 31ft, about two in the afternoon,\nthey faw the appearance of land, which\nfrom its bearings, &a they ftrongly fuf-\npected was the Table HiH, or.fome of the\nhigh land near it; but the next day a\nheavy gale of wind arofe from the S. E.\nand continued to blow with great violence,\ntill the 8 th of November, when it became\nmore moderate, and fliifted to the S. W.\nThe next niorning, to their great joy,\nB 2 they\n ' \ '. ^ ( 4 1^7 : - ;\nthey faw the Table Hill bearing E. by &\nand at.11 at night, having very light airs,\nanchored, but immediately after a heavy\nfquall from the fouthward came on, and\ndrove the Difcovery, in fpight \u00C2\u00B0f her\nanghor, towards Penguin Ifland, which\neireumftance obliged her to weigh it again\nand make fail. At one in the mornings\nhaving flood over to the S\u00C2\u00BB E. fide of the\nba^ fhe came to, and at fix weighed ;\nand With ifee afiiftariee oi her boats got\nfafe iri about nine, when ihe1 fahited Xk^\nfort \"with ifeirteeii guns, which was returned with ari etftial iJftaber, and tb#\nRefolution, overjoyed Mi feeing her long\nexpected conform faluted with nine gun&.\nThe daily occurrences at the Cape,\nwere fo little intereftiiig and entertaining\n(being nothing more than refitting the\nfhips, repairing the rigging, receiving on\nboard ftores and proviiiobs) m not to require a relation of them; it therefore will\nbe only neceffary to fay, that -by the 31 ft of\nNovember, both veflels were ready for fea*\nThe\n I 5 )\nThe next day (December i ft) at five 1%\nthe afternoon, we weighed and made fail;\nand having faluted the fort, Jftood out off\nTable Bay. When plear of the land, we\nfteered a S. S. E. and S. E. courfe, it be-?\ning Captain Cook's intention to afcertam\nthe reality of feme land to the fouthward,\nwhich was faid to be dlfcoveced by Mon^\nfieur Kerguelea, and which he had in\nvain fought for in his laft voyage. The\nFlinch charts were unluckily incorrecl:,\nfor the Resolution, in her tracT:, pafled\nover the very fpot where it was faid to\nexift.\nAs we approached the fouthern parts,\nwe by degrees found great alteration in\nthe weather, which now became very cold,\nwith thiek fogs, rain, and ftrong gales of\nwind, and coughs and colds were general\nin bot^i fliips. On the 16 th we defcried\nland, which upqp. & nearer-view,- proved\nto be two fmall iflands, affording at a distance a rocky, barren, and dreary profpedl:,\nand ajmoft furrounded with fogs ; the\nB 1 more\n fr*\u00C2\u00AB*\nI \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \" ( 6 ) \" & '\nmore lofty parts were covered with fnow^\nUpon a nearer view, we faw a few trees,\nupon the low ground, but they were thinly\nfcattered.\nThefe, which were called Prince Edward's Ifles, with three or four others farther\nto the eaftward, were firft difcovered by\nMonfieur Marion in 1774 and 1775. The\neaftern one lies in latitude 46 deg. 35 min.\nfouth, and longitude 37 deg. 51 min.\neaft; the weflern one 46 deg. 54 min.\nfouth latitude, and 37 deg. 39 min. eaft\nlongitude.\nWe paired between them, and continued\nour courfe, and on the 24th at four in the\nmorning again faw land, which proved to\nbe that we were in queft of. Our ob-\nferved latitude at noon was 48 deg. 24\nmin. fouth, and longitude 68 deg. 30 min.\neaft. At three in the afternoon, we difcovered more land to the fouthward,\nwhich was a continuation of the former.\nWe now directed our courfe immediately\nfor it, and at eight in the evening anchored\n - 17 ) ; ' ; '\nchored in a fmall bay? about half a mife.\nfrom fhore. The rocks were almoft\ncovered with penguins, and numbers of\nfhags flew round us. Captain Cook immediately ordered out one of the boats, to\nfee if they could difcover a convenient\nwatering-place, and to make likewife\nfome obfervations upon the produce of the\nplace. She returned about an hour after,\nand the officer who went in her informed\nthe captain, that there was a fecure harbour, and that water might be procured\nfrom a fine ftream with very little trouble.\nHe farther told him, tliat there were\nnumbers of feals, fea bears, and penguins, and brought off feveral of the latter, as a proof of his affertion. This account induced the captain to ftay a day\nor two ; and early the next morning (the\n25 th) the anchors were weighed. The\nwind being directly againft us, we\nwere reduced to the neceffity of ftanding\n.fome way out to fe,a, that we might have\na greater fcope to work to windward.\nThe Refolution fucceede4 very well 5\nP 4 bm\n but the Difcovery being a good way out,\nit became for a tiine almoft calm, whicl|\nprevented Jier from getting in till near\nthree in the afternoon, when ihe dropped hef anchor in twelve fathom water,\nthe bottom muddy. When moored, thg\nfouthernmoft point of the harbour bore\nS. E. \ S. j the N. j E. point E. by S.\nand the head of the harbour N. W. by\nW. our diftance from fliore about a quarr\ntcr of a mile. The entrance, and indeed\nthe harbour itfelf being very narrow, we\nwere obliged to tack every minute. -\nAs this place, afforded a retreat for\nfeals and fea bears, the captain determined\nto embrace the opportunity of fupplying\nthe fhips with blubber, which we migbi\nafterwards convert to oil at our Jeifure,\nThis plan we found of the greateft ufe to\nus in the courfe of our voyage, as our\nflock would otherwife have been quite\nexhaufted,\n\u00C2\u00BB\nThe next day (the 26th) parties were\nfent out for this purpofe, and in the fpace\nof five or fix hours .had filled air the\nhogfhead\u00C2\u00A7\n ( 9\nhogfheads we could fpare. Some of our\nmen brought feveral of the hearts of\nthefe animals on board, and a few declared them to be nearly as good eating\nas that of a bullock ; but, in fact, we^fiad\nnot as yet experienced hungry bellies\nenough to induce us to relifh them.\nOn the 27th, we celebrated Chriftmazs\nflay, when the Jailors had double allowance of grog. The next day- (28th)\ni$e filled our water cafks, and brought\noff a load or two of long coarfe grafs,\nwhich grew upon fome low marfhy\nground at the head of the harbour, for our\nflock. Soon after all thofe animals which\nJiad eaten of it began to difcover evident\nfymptoms of pain and uneafiriefs, and\nfome of their bodies became tenfe and\nfwelled ; in fhort, feveral of them died.\nCaptain Cook alarmed at this, ordered\nevery partidte to be thrown away, concluding that fomething poifonous had\nbeen brought on board with it; but upon investigating .the; matter more clpfely,\nit\n \u00C2\u00A7 ' rI0 }\nit was found that our people had cut it\nupon a fpot where a great number of\npenguins had been fitting, and that a\nconfiderablc quantity of their dung Jiad\nbeen included in it. This was immediately pronounced to be the caufe of\ntheir -death, and feveral fimilar inftances\nwere related of cattle in England dying in\nconfequence of eating grafs on which\ndijfeks and geefe had dunged. On the\nmorning of the 29th we got under\nway, and proceeded along the eaftern\ncoaft of this ifland, which is moderately\nlow and even, and affords to appearance\nfeveral very good harbours. Upon the ap*-\nproach of evening, the commodore made\nthe Difcovery's fignal to take the lead,\nand look out for a proper place to anchor\nin for the night, and fuch a one being\nfound, we anchored in fixteen fathom,\nmuddy bottom, about a quarter of a mile\nfrom fliore.\nfltln this day's run, we were not without\npur apprehenfions j being obliged to paf\u00C2\u00A7\nthrough\n (\nII\n4$irough many extenfive fields (if I may\nbe allowed the expreflion) of fea weed,\n[fucus gigartinus, Lin.) and as they\ngenerally indicate a rocky neighbourhood,\nwe were fearful of meeting with fome of\nthofe dangerous obftru&ions.\nThe fhips were no fooner fecured, than\nCaptain Cook 'ordered out the pinnace,\nand went on fhore on the eaftern fide ;\nwhile the Difcovery's fmall cutter, with\nthe matter, was fent to a fmall ifland to\nthe weftward, to take the bearings and\ncUftancesfof the different remarkable\npoints of land. The feals and fea bears\nwere more numerous than at the laft\nplace, and fome of them much larger.\nThe next morning (the 30th) \ we\nweighed, and made fail, and after coafting\nfome time, in order to afcertain the extent\nof the land, we ftood to tjte eaftward,\nfliaping our courfe for Van Diemen's\nLand. ffl\nThis ifland was firft difcovered by\nMonfieur Kerguelen. Chriftmas-harbour\n(which\n ! h\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2' /-' ( 1Z ) 3,\n(which was that part of it where we firft\nlanded, and which was fo called in remembrance of Chriftmas day) lies nearly\nin latitude 48 deg. 41 min. fouth, and\nin longitude 68 deg. 52 rriin. eaft. It is\neafily to be known by a remarkable\npierced rock on its eaftern fide, which is\nlike the gateway of fome old caftle. The\nharbour is very fecure, and is furrounded\nby high land. If we may judge of the\ngeneral produce of this place, from what\nwe faw of it at Chriftmas Harbour,\nit is certainly as rocky, barren, and defo-\nlate an ifland as can well be conceived,\nwhich induced Captain Cook to call it\nthe Ifland of Defolation. It does not afford' a fingle fhrub, and is covered, in\nfome few\" fpots on|y, with mofs and four\nor five fpecies of plants, among which is\none fomething refembling a cabbage in\nits appearance. Its inhabitants are feals^\nfea bears, penguins falca cirrhata apteW$\nnodytes antarclicaj gulls, * Port Eemont\nhens \"(tarus caiiarafiesj^ quaker birds\nffroteU\n m\nMS\n (procellqria aquila) petrels (procella\nria capenfs, vittataj terns^ fhags, ducks,\nand a white bird about the fize of\na groufe, which we called a fnow bird.\nIts beak is ftrong and black, with a hollow protuberance at the bafe, fomething\nlike that of a petril; it has four toes;\nits feet are of a fleih colour. At the bafe\nof the wing is a black, hard round\nknob, which projects about a quarter of\nan inch; its eyes are furrounded with a\nkind of membrane which appears as if\ncorrugated, and is alfo of a flefli colour.\nWe found this a well flavoured bird;\nI which circumftance, with the great plenty\nof ducks and fhags, induced^ur fportf-\nmen to be out pretty often, but at laft they,\nbecame fhy, and almoft quitted the fpot.\n*The\" Caftern part of this ifland affords\nthe fame fcanrea afpect as Chriftmas Harbour, and in fhort the whole is an affem-\nbiage of fauge rocky matter, only calculated for the rdO$ence of fuch half-formed\nanimals\na\n .1 *4 )\nanimals as feals and fea bears.* The\"\nthermometer was from 34 to 36, and once\n50 degrees.\nC 11 Ix X \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 11*.\nThe Jhips proceed to Van-Diemen's land\u00E2\u0080\u0094\narrival in Adventure Bay\u00E2\u0080\u0094meet with\nno good water\u00E2\u0080\u0094catch plenty if fifh\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nparties fent to cat wood\u00E2\u0080\u0094fome of the\nnatives** make their appearance-**\u00E2\u0080\u0094defcription of them\u00E2\u0080\u0094ate frightened by the\naifcharge of a mufquetj and run into\nthe woods\u00E2\u0080\u0094pay us another vifit\u00E2\u0080\u0094afar-\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ther , defcription of them*, and of Adven*\niure Bay.\nOUR courfe from the Ifland of Defola-\ntion, was nearly E. by N. and\nE. N. E. The weather after a few days\nrun, became more moderate and warm,\nthe thermometer rifing to 50. anjd 55 *\nThe wind proved tolerably fteady, tho'\nnow and then a fquall ufed us . rather\nroughly, in one of which the Refolution\ncarried\n I >5 )\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0carried away her fore-top-maft and main\ntop-gallant maft. We continued ftand-\ning on, in daily expectation of feeing the\nland, and on January 23d, 1777, were\nby our obfervations within a few leagues\nof it; but the weather being hazy, we\nfaw nothing till the next day, Friday\n24th, in the morning, when we defcried\npart of New Holland, bearing N. by W.\ndiftant about nine leagues. We traced\nthe coaft, pafling Storm Bay and the Fluted\nCape, till the 27th, and at two in the\nafternoon the Difcovery anchored in Adventure Bay in 13 fathom of water,\nfandy bottom. The Refolution at this\ntime was in the offing, and did not arrive till paft four. The bearings on board\nthe Difcovery when moored, ] were as\nfollows : Penguin Ifland N. 74 E.\ndiftant a mile and half; Cape Frederick\nHenry N. 25 E. and the watering\nplace N. 77 W. diftant from the neareft\nfhore about a mile.\nSoon after, the Commodore went on'\nfliore:\n I j i6) ^ j\nfliore to fix upon & proper plaee for\nerecting the Aftronomers Tents, and\nlikewife to look for a convenient fpot\nfor wooding and watering. In the two\nformer he fucceeded very well, but in the\nlatter, by no means to his mind, every run\nof water (at Ieaft every one that would\nhave fuited our purpofe) proving brack-\nifh. Our people on board were alfo enw\nfljoyed in catching fifli, with which this\nBay abounds, particularly j|; very large\nrays, which afforded thejn excellent fpoiQ\nand a variety of other fifli. The next\nmorning (28th) parties w\"ere fent out to\nwood and water, and as fifh were fo plentiful, \ another gang of h^fids were dif-\npatched to haul the fean. Several of the\ngentlemen likew^e made excurfions into\nthe woods in fearch of gagie. We ob-\nferved from the fhips many ftrK>kes in\ndifferent parts, and fome at no great\ndlftance, but faw none of the natives till\nthe evening, when about 20 of them\ncame to the wooding place, and feveral\nm- 6 others\n / J. ... ( I 1 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 M'' ,- \u00E2\u0096\u00A0:\nothers to our watering party. 'They were\nentirely naked, and fome had a kind of\nbludgeon in their hands, about three\nfeet long, which, upon their approaching\nourwooders, they threw down, and made\nfigns for them to lay afide their hatchets,\n&c. which was complied with. They\nthen came near, and examined our faws,\nand other different tools ; but what fur-\nprifed them moft, was our cloathing,\nwhich they at firft thought was part of\nour body. They were below the middle\nfize, of a dark brown colour, and not\nill made.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The party with our waterers,\npaid a deal of attention to what they were\nemployed about, and examined the cafes\nwith fome nicety ; but the boat, which\nlay at fome little diftance from the fhore,\nattracted their notice more particularly,\nand fome of them got hold of the rope,\nand were hauling it on fhore. The officer\nwho attended, made figns for them to\ndefift ; but they difregarding him, he\nfired a mufquet over their heads, which\nVol. I. C fudden\n .'\n1\n( i8\nfudden and unexpected noife fo alarmed\nthem, that every foul, as well thofe\nas were with the wooders as waterers,\nclapped their hands upon their heads,\nand ran off with the greateft expedition. Our fifhermen were very lucky,\nand brought off a variety of fifh, amongft;\nwhich were fome of the largell: rays we\never faw, and a very uncommon looking\nfifh, which we called an elephant-fifh (chi-\nmcera callorynchus^ Lin.) The fhooting\nparty were not fo fortunate : birds of all\nkinds were very fhy, particularly the\nfhags and ducks.\nEarly the next morning (29th) our\nparties were employed on fhore\", as be-^\nfore; but the water proving very bad,\nUpon trial, the Commodore thought it\nmoft prudent to relinquSh his fcheme of\nflaying there any longer^ and accordingly gave orders for every thing to be\nbrought on board. WJiSft our people\nwere employed in getting off the Aftro-\nnomers tents, and various other matters,\nI the\n (*9 )\ntne natives again paid us a vifit. We\nnow had a better opportunity of making\nour Remarks than before.\nTheir colour, as has been before obferv-\ned, was dark brown: their hair (which was\nihort and woolly) and beard were formed\ninto fmall diftinct lumps, with a mixture\nof reddifli brown earth, and fome kind of\nliquid, which appeared to be of an oily\nnature : this mode of dreffine their hair\ngave them an uncommon appearance.\nThe man who feemed to be the principal\namong them, had his face entirely painted\nwith this compofition. Their teeth were\nin general bad, their nofes flat, lips thick,\nforeheads low, but their eyes were dark\nbrown and lively. Their arms and breafts\nwere marked with lines running in various\ndirections, but totally different from any\nwe had ever feen before, the fleih being ele -\nvated or raifed up as it were in little ridges.\nRound the^ necks of fome of them was a\nkind of cord, about the thicknefs of our\nwhip-cord, very ftrong, and twifted in\nC 2 the\n *f\nthe remains of two or three old huts, or\nrather fheds, in and round which were\nfcattered mufcle and cockle fhells in a-\nbufidance, but not the leaft appearance\nof any thin^ elfe. Nor did we fee any\nthing like a boat or canoe ; fo that in fact\nthey feem to be nearly upon a par with\nthe wretched natives of Terra del Fuego.\nThe only quadruped we faw diftinctly\nwas a fpecies of opoffum, which agrees in\nmany refpects with Mr. Pennant's defcription of the Surinam opoffum, and from\nthe particular conformation of its hind\nfeet, viz the firft and fecond toes clofely\nunited, it probably may be the fame\nfpecies.\nThe birds are various, though not nu-\nrnerous, and fome of them very beautir\nful, particularly a fpecies of parroquet,\nand a fmall bird of the motacilla genus\nwith a bright blue head, which we, on\nthat account, called motacilla cyanea.\nAmong a variety of fifh, we obferved\nifae atherina hepfetus, and a new fpecies\nof\n ( 23 )\nof oftracion, only one of which was\ncaught. The foil is in general good ; we\nplanted potatoes, Jtidney-beans, peach an\u00C2\u00A3l\napricot ftones, which poflibly may fucceed\nvery well,\nC 4\nCHAP,\n I i \\nI\niti^r\n' : -, ; CHAP. III. : 7 >\nDeparture from Van Diemens land\u00E2\u0080\u0094arrival at New Zealand\u00E2\u0080\u0094-fome of the natives ve?7ture alongfide\u00E2\u0080\u0094appear fufpici-\nous and diflrufiful\u00E2\u0080\u0094the tents erecled on\nfhore\u00E2\u0080\u0094brew fpruce-beer\u00E2\u0080\u0094fithinefs of\nthe New Zealanders\u00E2\u0080\u0094Tiu-arrooas attachment to Captain Cook and Omai\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nKihoorah^ the chief who killed the unfortunate Mr. Rowe, vifits the Jhips; is\ndifliked by his countrymen\u00E2\u0080\u0094the Difcovery drags her anchor in a fquall\u00E2\u0080\u0094preparations for leaving New Zealand\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nTiu-arrooa and another boy beg to accompany Omai\u00E2\u0080\u0094the mother of the-former\ninconfolable\u00E2\u0080\u0094our departure.\nROM Adventure Bay we purfued\nan E. N. E courfe. February 4th,\nTuefday, early in the morning, one of\nthe Difcovery's marines fell over board,\nand was drowned. On Monday the\nipth,. in the afternoon, we faw the Coaft\nof\n ( 25 )\nof New Zealand, the extremes bearing '\nfrom E. to S. by E. and on Wednefday\nthe 12th, both fhips anchored in Ship\nCove, Charlotte Sound. When moored,\nthe N. point of the Cove bore N. 42 E?\nthe S. E. point S. 35 E. and the N.\npart of Motuara Ifland N. 61 E. :\nThe fhips were fcarcely fecured before\nwe obferved feveral canoes of the natives\ncroflmg frorn* the Hippa to the oppofite\nfhore, along which they paddled, and\nflopped at fome diftance to reconnoitre us ;\nbut at length they came nearer, and ex-\npofed- fomething white in their hands,\nwhich they waved backwards and forwards. This we fuppofed to be in token\nof peace, and of courfe ahfwered it immediately ; they then came along fide\nfthe fhips, though not without evident\nfigns of fufpicion and diftruft. We pur-\nchafed a fifh or two and a few other\ntrifles, and theyjfbon after departed.\nThe head of one of thefe canoes was\npurioufly ornamented with carved open\nwork.\n g '\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'' --\n(\n2\nThe next day (Thurfday 13th) the\ntents were fent on fhore, with the cooper,\nand all the empty calks, the aftrono-\nmers tents and parties to wood and\nwater. Coppers were alfo fixed up on\nfhore, to boil the blubber we had collected\nat the Ifland of Defolation, while the remaining hands on board repaired the\nrigging, and performed the neceflary\n.duty of the fhips. As we had now met\nwith but little refrefhment finceour departure from the Cape, Capt. Cook, ever attentive to the health of his fhips companies propofed brewing a kind of beer,\nfrom a tree which bore fome refem-\nblance to^the fpruce fir, the good effects\nof which he had experienced in their\nformer voyage. Other coppers were\ntherefore fixed for that purpofe. On\nTuefday the 18th, the beer was ferved\nout, and found to be fo pleafant and falu-\ntary, and fo generally approved of by all\nparties, that the Commodore determined to\ncarry as much of it to fea as he could. The\noil\nn\n !;\u00C2\u00A7\u00C2\u00A7\u00C2\u00A7 ' g\npit party on fhore were conftantly attende4\nby many of the natives, who received the\nfcum and pieces of blubber that remained\nafter boiling with the greateft thankful-\nnefs ; and indeed you could not oblige a\nNew Zealander more than to give him\nthe oil out of the fhips lamps, which he\nwould fwallow with all the greedinefs\nimaginable. Of thofe who were the moft\n.conftantly on board, a young lad called\nTiu-arrooa, was the principal ; he was\npoffeffed of good-nature, and had a great\nfliare of fenfe and difcernment. He was\ngreatly attached to Captain Cook and\nOmai, and was j conftantly with one or\nthe other. His father was late chief of the\ndiftrict in which our fhips lay, and was\nkilled, with feveral others, about fix weeks\nbefore our arrival, by a ftrong party of\nanother diftrict, who attacked them in\nthe night. Tiu-arrooa and a few others\nefcaped with the greateft difficulty.\nA few | days before our departure,\nKitoorah (the chief who headed the party\nthat,\n 1\n\u00C2\u00A7{ *8\nthat cut off the unfortunate Mr. Rowe)\npaid us a vifit. At firft he was very fhy,\n\u00C2\u00A3nd would not venture on board, fearful\nno doubt that we fhould revenge the\ndeath of our people upon him ; but when\nhe found we took no notice of it, he laid\nafide that diffidence, and readily came to\nthe fhips.\u00E2\u0080\u0094He was much difliked by his\nown people, who frequently defired us\nto fhoot him, at the fame time exprefling^\ntheir difapprobation of him in pretty\nfevere terms, *\nOn the 20th (Thurfday), we had very\nheavy fqualls of wind, in confequence of\nwhich the Difcovery drove, and was\nobliged to let go her fheet-anchor, and\nboth veffels ftruck yards and top-mafts.\nThe natives al| this time fupplied us\nplentifully with fifh, among which was\nthe elephant-fifh, but one in particular,\nwhich they called a mogee, was not inferior to a falmon. We alfo frequently\nprocured very excellent lobfters.\nCaptain\n It v .\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ! 2g ; ,\nCaptain Cook having given orders fof\nriking the tents, &c. and preparing for\nfea, on the 23d every thing was put on,\nboard. Tiu-arrooa and another lad having expreffed a defire to continue with\nOmai, were permitted by the captain to\naccompany him. The mother of the former came on board, and with tears entreated him to remain behind, telling him,\namong many other powerful arguments,\nthat we fhould kill and eat him 5 but he\nwas too refolute and firm to pay any attention to her perfuafions, and the poor\nwoman went on fhore quite inconfolable.\nThe next morning (Monday 24th), at\nnine, we weighed and made fail, but ha^\nIng very light winds, we were obliged at\nnoon to anchor again in nine fathom,\nmuddy bottom, Point Jackfon\" bearing\nnorth, Cape Koamaroo E. | S. and the\nHippah, S. by W. iW.\nAt eight the next day (Tuefday 25th),\nwe again got up our anchor, and made\nfail, ftanding through Cook's Straits\n IN\nSI' ;^ i 3\u00C2\u00B0 )\nAt noon, Cape Terra-wittee bore S.\nE. by S. Cape Koamaroo W. t\u00C2\u00A7S<\nand fome rocks called the Brothers,\nfrom W. by S. to N. W. by W. our ob-\nferved latitude being 41 deg. 6 min.\nfouth.\nSo much has already been faid of the\nnatives, with their manners, cuftoms,\nhoufes, furniture, canoes, &c. &c. that\nas we can make no improvement, a repetition would be both tedious and ufe-\nlefs.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nCHAP;\nMMMiMaMMIiliMMMiMMMialJtt\n (\n3*\n- chap.- IV. ' ^:m\nPafs through Cook's Straits\u00E2\u0080\u0094difcover an\nifland\u00E2\u0080\u0094affords a pleafing profpecl\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nare feen by the natives\u00E2\u0080\u0094two of them\ncome off in a canoe\u00E2\u0080\u0094the boats fent\nto look for a landing-place\u00E2\u0080\u0094but return\nwithout fuccefs\u00E2\u0080\u0094fome account of the\nnative's\u00E2\u0080\u0094leave the ifland\u00E2\u0080\u0094difcover two\nmore\u00E2\u0080\u0094the natives very readily come on\nboard\u00E2\u0080\u0094defcription of them\u00E2\u0080\u0094the arrival\nof a chief-\u00E2\u0080\u0094he enters into a league of\nfriendfhip with us\u00E2\u0080\u0094our boats fent on\nfhorey atte?ided by a number of canoes\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nthe king of the ifland fends Captain\nGierke a pig and fome cocoa-nuts\u00E2\u0080\u0094the\nreturn of the boats\u00E2\u0080\u0094are *not able to\nland\u00E2\u0080\u0094the Jhips Jl and off and on for the\nnight.\nE continued in Cook's Straits the\nbeft part of Wednefday (February 26th). At noon, Cape Terra-witte\nbore N. W. by W. and Cape Palllfer\nE. by N. diftant about four leagues.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nFrom\n I\nI\n(\n3*\nFrom this time to the 17th of March\n(Monday), we continued nearly a N. E*\ncoaft. At noon oiir obferved latitude\nwas 33 deg. and 23 min. S. In the afternoon we paffed the trunk of a tree*\nwhich appeared much weather-beaten,\nand was furrounded with barnacles. Early\nin the morning of the 29th (Saturday),\nbeing in lat. 22 deg. 11 min. fouth,\nand longitude 201 deg. 50 min. eaft, we\npaffed feveral pieces of wood and rock-\nweed : feveral man of war birds were\nobferved ; and a bird, fomething like a\ncuckow, flew round the fhips. Thefe\nbeing indications of the proximity of\nland, we kept a good look-out, but upon\nexamining our charts, we found none\nlaid down nearer than the Society Ifles.\nAt nine the next morning (Sunday\n30th), we difcovered land bearing about\nN. E. The Difcovery being a-head, mad\nthe fignal, which was anfwered by,the\nRefolution. The winds foon after proving light, and being fome diftance from\nth\ne\n I (. 33 ) ;\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 7\nthe land, night came on before we could\ndiftinguifh objects clearly; fo got our\ntacks on board, and flood off and on tilL\nmorning (Monday 31ft), when we made\nall fail for the land. At four we were\nrunning along the foufh-fide, at about the\ndiftartce of four tniles, which, as the fun\nwas juft rifing, afforded a moft pleafing\nprofpect. The interior parts rofe in moderately high hills, upon the tops of which\nwere trees of various kinds. The fides\nnfcxt the fea were very woody, and we\ncould plainly diftinguifh coco nut and\nplantain trees in abundance.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Upon our\nnearer approach to the vfhore, \u00C2\u00A3we faw\nmany of the natives running along the\nbeach, and, by the help of our piaffes,\nfound that fome had large clubs upon\ntheir fhoulders, and that others were armed with long fpears. As we proceeded,\nthe Indians followed us, fhouting and\nhollowing, thtjr number increaffihg very\nfall. Soon after two of them put off\nin a canoe (the only one we faw), and\nVol. I.\nD\ncame\n \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\ncame within fifty or fixty yards of the\nffi^j9s,^but would not venture neairer,\nthough we made all the friendly figns\nwe could think of, and fhewed therii\nBeads, hatchets, looking-glaffes, and\nmany other articles of Indian trade.\nTheir complexion appeared to be of the\ndark dlive eaft, their hair was fattened ta\nthe top of their heads fomething hi the\nNew Zealand fafhion f one of them had\na large peart oyfter-fhell fufpended from\nhis neck, and fomething round hi# Aid-\ndie ; the other was naked.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The canoe\nwas neatly made, and furniflied with\nan out-rigger; the ftern was high for fb\nfmall a boat, and terminated in a kind of\nCaptain Cook finding the littfe probability there was of opening an intercourfe\nwith the natives in this runner, ordered\nthe pinnace and fmafi cutter to be got\nout, which, with the large cutter of the\nBifcovery, and proper officers on board\neach, with trade of various kinds, were\n ( 35 ) :.f\nfent in fhore, to fee if there was a poffi-\nbility of landing, and to endeavour to\npurchafe fomething from the inhabitants.\nDuring their abfence, we founded feveral\ntimes, but got no ground at forty fathom.\nAbout three hoiirs after, they returned,\nand the information we received was,\nthat the ifland (at leaft this part of it)\nwas furrounded with a reef of coral rock,\nupon which a heavy furf was continually\nbreaking ; fo that it was totally impracticable to land without deftroying the\nboats, and endangering the lives of\nthofe who were in them. About a quarter of a mile from the reef, they found\nground at twenty-one fathom.\nDuring their cruife, they had an opportunity of making a few remarks upon the natives^ many of whom fwam to\nthem from the fhore. They were flout\nand well made, but all armed ; fo that it\nwas more than probable they would have\noppofed us, if we had fucceededfo far as\nto have landed upon the reef Some df\nD 2 them\n rBa\n-J-\"^ J \"\n:-;i', \" (13'6 I ' -'\nthem were armed with pata-patows, likd\nthofe of the New Zeelanders ; and their\nlanguage referhbled, in many refpects,\nthat of Otaheitee. They quite difregarded\nhatchets arid nails, but were much pleafed\nwith looking-glaffes : like all other Indians they were given to thieving, and one\nof them very artfully ftole a bunch of\nbeads out of one of the boats, with which\nhe fwam off. Our people could not\nprocure a iingle coco nut, nor would\nthey part with any thing they had. The\nfhore appeared very delightful, the trees\nbeing lofty and fhady, and the air was ab-\nfolutely perfumed with the fcents of va-\nrious flowers.\nWe 'were much chagrined at our bad\nfuccefs for feveral reafons, but more particularly on account of our live flock,\nwhich were almoft in a ftarving eonditiom\nFinding that nothing more could be\ndone, at noon we made fail, ftanding to\nthe northward, the extremes of the ifle\nbearing N. E. by E. and S. by E.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 I \" \" \" 1 \"i \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 1 The\n '\u00C2\u00A7( 37 )\nThe next day (Tuefday, April ift),at\nnoon, land was again difcovered, bearing\nN. by E. The Difcovery, being near\nthree miles a-head of the Refolution,\nmade the fignal. At four in the afternoon, it bore from N. E. {\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 N. to N. E.\n1 E. diftant about feven leagues; we\nflood off and on for the night, and at day-\njbreak (Wednefday 2d) it bore N. &\nabout four leagues. It appeared to .be an\nifland nearly of the fame extent as the\nformer. At five the Refolution hoifted\nthe Difcovery's fignal to make fail a-head\nto the N. E. and at feven we faw another\nfmall ifle bearing N. I E. At noon\njtacked, the fmall ifle bearing E. and the\nbody of the large one S. E. by E. our\nlatitude being 19 deg. 47 nun. fouth,\nand longitude 202 deg. 12 min. eaft. All\nthe afternoon we were making the beft of\npur way for the large ifland, but being\nobliged to work to windward, night came\non before we could reach it, fo of courfe\nftpod off and on till morning. During\n3 \the\n ill\nIII!\nIHi> .\"\ni\nthe night we faw feveral fires on fhore %\nand the next day, at five in the morning,\nthe Difcovery made all fail for the ifland,\njn confequence of a iignal from the Refo-\nlutiom\nAs the fhips were ftanding in, many\nof the natives put off, Ibme in Angle,\nothers in double canoes; the fingle have\nfeldom room enough to contain more than\none perfbn, the double ones will hold\neight or ten. They foon paddled along\nfide, and with very little perfuafion came\nfan boatfd ; Aeir fize was above the middle\nftandard, and7tthey were ftour- well-made\npeople, with fine open countenances;\ntheir colour of the olive eaft, with a mixture of brown. Their hair was black;\nin fome J6ftgy in others flftrt, and wore\nin a variety of forms, juft as convenience\nor fancy directed. None had more than a\nW&&W piece of cloth round their mid*\ndie, which was painted or dyed of different patterns, with red, black, and yellow. Several were marked or tatowed\nmoft\n ( 39 ) * ,\nmoft curioufly from the middle downwards, particularly upon their legs. They\nwere very friendly and good-natured, and\nran about the fhip with as little ceremony,\nand appeared as perfectly at eafe, as if\nthey had been long ufed to them. In\nthis interval Captain Cook ordered out\nthe pinnace and large cutter, and fent\nthem on board the Difcovery, with Mr.\nGore the firft lieutenant, and Omai, to\nlearn if there was a poffibility of anchoring, and if any refrefhments could be\nprocured from the natives, for, as fhe\nwas much nearer the fhore than the Refolution, of courfe all the canoes came to\nher. Soon after their arrival, a double\ncanoe, paddled by eight people, with a\ntall flout man ftanding up in her, came\nalpng-fide ; he, without any ceremony,\ncame on board with a branch of a coco\nnut tree in his hand, and feveral roots df\nthe a'wa (piper methyfiicum Fofieri) %. fpe-\ncjes o\u00C2\u00A3 pepper, with which they intoxicate\nthemfelve^.\nD 4 Oftiai\n mm\nm\n1:: -\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 ..v. ( 4\u00C2\u00B0 ? '7. '. .\nOmai accofted him in the Otaheitee\nlanguage, which appeared to vary but\nlittle from his own. It feems the intent\ntion of this vifit, was to eftablifh peace\non both fides, after the ratification of\nwhich, we were to be fupplied with hogs,\nbread-fruit, plantains, and in fhort every\nthing the ifland produced. After the\nceremony (not one word of which we\nunderftood) was over, and every article\nagreed to by the chief on his part, and by\nOmai on our's, the Refolution's boats\n(in one of which the Aree went), attended\nby the Difcovery's large cutter, and a\nnumber of canoes, proceeded to the fhore*\nAt noon our obferved latitude was 19 deg.\n59 mill. S. In the afternoon, the King of\nthe ifland fent Captain Gierke a prefent\nof fome coco nuts, and a young pig,\nwho liberally rewarded the bearers with\nfome nails,\" a large piece of fcarlet cloth,\nand, fomq hatchets.\nIn the evening the boats returned, with\nthe difagreeable news of not being able to\nfind\n (41 )\nfind a place where the fhips could ride in\nfafety, nor even a landing-place for a boat;\nthis part of the ifland being fur rounded\nby a reef, upon which a continual furf\nWas breaking.\nThis information damped our fpirits 3\ngood deal, for we were all elate with hope,\nand had already anticipated the pleafure\nand fatisfaction we fhould experience, in\nthe many good things the ifland produced ; efpecially as the natives were\nfull as defirous of our landing as we\ncould poffibly be ourfelves. '\" J|7 .\nWe were determined however not to\ngive up the point in this manner, but to\nmake another trial; and fince it was\nimpoffible to effect a landing in our\nboats, thofe who were to go upon |his\nexpedition were to land in the canoes of\nthe natives, who from long experience\nare very dextrous at this kind of work.\nHaving thus fettled our plan, we flood\noff and .on for the night. \" 7\n \u00E2\u0080\u0094 I T^l I I I\nmm\n( 42 )\n*f'-'-*f:- CHAP. V. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0'--',;\u00E2\u0096\u00A0-\u00E2\u0096\u00A0-\u00E2\u0096\u00A0--\nThe boats again fent on fhore\u00E2\u0080\u0094they return\nwithout any fupply\u00E2\u0080\u0094the behaviour of\nthe King\u00E2\u0080\u0094*promifes them provifions,\nbut deceives them\u00E2\u0080\u0094Omai finds five of his\ncountrymen\u00E2\u0080\u0094leave Watieu and proceed\nto the fmall Ifland\u00E2\u0080\u0094procure a flock of\ngrafs for the cattle and fome coco nuts\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094arrive at Harvey s IJlana1\u00E2\u0080\u0094defcrip-\ntwn of the natives-r-'are great thieves\n~\u00E2\u0080\u0094the boats fent to open a trade with\nthem\u00E2\u0080\u0094but return without fuccefs\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n1 Captain Cook determines to proceed to\nj the Friendly Ifles3 j by way of Palmer-\n\ fions Ifle\u00E2\u0080\u0094and bears aw ays accordingly.\ng|BHH|\nHE next morning (April.33}, at\n\"nine the Refolution s pinnace and\ncutter, in the former of wh^ch^ were\nMr. Gore the firft lieutenant, the furgepn^\nand Omai, attended by the Difcovery's\nlarge cutter, were fent on fhore. The\nH HI H natives\n ,; ( 43 )\nnatives came-to the fhips, bringing coco\nnuts, plantains, and the intoxicating\npepper root, but no hogs, which would\nhave been the moft welcome fight ; we\ngave them in return knives, red cloth,\nand nails. At feven in the evening the\nboats returned, but without either hogs,\nbread-fruit, plantains, or any thing elfe.\nThe account we received was, that they\nhad with great difficulty got on fhore in\nthe Indian canoes ; as foon as they were^\nlanded, the natives led them in great\nform to the King, who behaved rather\nf eferved upon the occafion : upon informing him that we were in great want of\nprovifions, he faid that we fliould have\nhogs and other things, but as they were\nat a diftance up the country, it would be\nfome time before his people could get\nthem. They waited a confiderable time,\nBut none appearing, they again requefted\nthat fome might be brought, or at leaft\nfome bread-fruit, plantains or coco nuts.\nThey were defired to flop a little longer,\nIP which\n . J - - ' ( 44 )\nwhich thev did till it became rather late,\nand they deemed it prudent to get on\nboard as foon as they could. The inhabitants would at firft fcarce permit\nthem to go, but feeing them refolutely\nbent on departing. *&ey at laft acquiefced,\nhaving taken from them almoft every\nthing they could find, \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 and glad were our\ngentlemen to efcape fo cheap, as they\nwere apprehenfive of being: detained on\nr i:\nfhore much againft theirJlinclinations..\nOne circuinftance was very remarkable ;\nwhich waSj^Oma-i's finding five of his\ncountrymen upon this ifland. The account they gave was, that in pafling from\npne ifland to another they were drove out\nto fea, and after beating up and down for\nfeveral dajrs and nights, and fuffering\nalmoft the extremes of hunger, thirft, and\nfatigue, they at laft feji in with this\nifland ; the inhabitants of which not\nonly very humanely afforded them pr^\ntectipn but likewife gave them wijes^\nand in fhorty that they were^nowyjookgif'\n\u00C2\u00A7! upon,\n '' \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0. - \u00E2\u0096\u00A0( M--1 I.\nttpon as natives of the place. This affair,\naccording to Omai, happened near tex*\nyears ago.\nBoth the men and women were cloth-\ned much In the Otaheitee manner; they\nwere armed with fpears and clubs, the\nlatter being curioufly carved. The Indian\nname of this ifland is Watieu, that of the\nfmaller one Modu-ete. During the night\nwe flood off and on, and the next morning (April 4th), fhaped our courfe for the\nfmall ifle, purpofing to try if we fhould\nbe more fortunate in cur attempts at that\nplace than at the former.\nAt ten, the boats from both fhips\nwere difpatched on fhore, not for the\npurpofe of procuring provifions, for the\nifland was uninhabited, but to cut grafs\n&c. for our live flock, the providing for\nwhich was the principal object. After\nthey had well loaded the boats, they\nWere to bring coco nuts, bread-fruit,\nplaintairis, &c. if the place produced\ntheih 1 in which cafe fuch a number of\nAail^\n :-\n.\nHi!*'\n>; ^ ( 46 )\u00C2\u00A7\nnails, hatchets, &c. were to be left, as\nwere thought a fufficient rec^pipence for\nthem. Our obferved latitude to-day was\n19 deg. 47 min. S.\nAt half paft fix in the evening, thq\nboats returned with a plentiful flock of\ngrafs and many coco nuts, which were\nthe only fruit they could find. The\nlatter were divided amongft the fhips\ncompanies, and the former afforded a.\nmoft welcome repaft to our cattle, which\nwere reduced almoft to the laft extremity.\nOur people faw the remains of two or\nthree old huts, which had poflibly been\nerected there by thofe who came from\nWatieu for the purpofe of fifhing.\nThis ifland is alfo furrounded with a\nreef, which rendered landing rather difficult. It is very fmall, being not more\nthan a mile and half in length, and is\nfituated about ten miles from Watieu.\nAt eight in the evening we hoifted m\nthe boats, and bore away for Hervey's\nIfland, which Captain Cook 4ifcovered\nSfer- during\n u\n(47 ) ft\"\nduring his laft voyage. The next day\n(April 5th) the fhips companies were put\nto two-thirds allowance of every fpecies\nof provifion except grog. Soon after\nday-light the next morning (April 6th),\nwe faw Harvey's Ifland, bearing W. S.\nW. At ten, we had very light airs, and\nthe Difcovery got too near the Refolution, and was obliged to get out her large\ncutter to tow her clear. Soon after we\nfaw feveral Indians putting off in their\ncanoes ; at firft they kept aloof, as if to\nreconnoitre, but at laft ventured along-\nfide. Their appearance was altogether\nwretched, and very different from the\ninhabitants of the tropical ifles in general. .Their hair was black and fhaggy,\nthey were very dirty, and had only a\nvery fmall ftrip of cloth round their\nmiddle.\nThey wanted every thing they faw,\nand one of them was handing the oars\nout of the Difcovery's cutter, which was\nalong-fide. Thefe we were not willing to\n6 part\n ( 43 1\npart with, and of courfe oppofed him^\nwhich enraged the fellow fo much, that\nhe caught up his paddle and ftruck one of\nour people over the head with it. Some\nof them finding a piece of beef towing\nover board to frefhen, very dexteroufly\ndivided the rope, made off with the beef,\nand afterwards fold it on board the Refolution for fome nails. In the afternoon,\nthe boats were fent in fhore, well manned\nand armed, to try if a trade could be\nopened with the natives. They returned\nin about two hours, with only a few coco nuts, the inhabitants being more dif-\npofed to commit hoftilities then to traf-\nfick. This ifland, we found during our\nrun along fhore, was two feparate ones,\nwhich circumftance, with its being inhabited, were unknown before.\nCaptain Cook now rinding it impracticable to reach Otaheitee in any reafon-\nable time, as the wind continued fo far\ntothe eaft ward, and it being abfolutely\nneceffary to procure food for the cattle,\ngave\n _\n; , \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 I 49 ) , I\ngave lip all thoughts of it for the prefent,\nefpecially as the feafon was too far advanced to flop any time at the Society\nIfles and then proceed to the northward.\nHe therefore determined to make the beft\nof his way to the Friendly Ifles, and ordered the Difcovery, which was the beft\nfailing fhip, to keep two miles a-head,\npurfuing a W. S. W. courfe : and as\nPalmerfton's Ifland was in our way, he\npropofed flopping there a day or two, and\ntaking in a frefti fupply of grafs and coco nuts ; a fufficient quantity of which,\nefpecially of the former, he hoped to procure to laft to the Friendly Ifles. At five\nin the afternoon we bore away, and at\nfix the body of Hervey's Ifland bore E.\nby N. diftant about three leagues.\nvol. r.\n (\nCO\n\u00C2\u00A7 C H A P. VI. -\nHotfultry weather with thunder and lightning\u00E2\u0080\u0094arrive at Palmerflonys Ifland\u00E2\u0080\u0094i\nfind no anchorage for theJhips\u00E2\u0080\u0094-rthe boats\nfent on Jhore\u00E2\u0080\u0094account of this Ifland\u00E2\u0080\u0094inhabited by numerous flocks of birds\u00E2\u0080\u0094the\nreef affords excellent fifh\u00E2\u0080\u0094particularly\nlarge eels\u00E2\u0080\u0094defcription of them\u00E2\u0080\u0094many\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 fharks\u00E2\u0080\u0094-find part of a canoe and a piece\nqf plank upon the beach\u00E2\u0080\u0094pafs Savage\nIfland*\u00E2\u0080\u0094and defcry the Friendly Ifles\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nanchor off Anamooka.\nFROM the feventh to the twelfth, we\nhad very light airs and calms : the\nweather was hot and fukry, the thermometer ftanding at 83, and 84. We had\nalfo much thunder and lightning, attended with frequent fqualls and heavy\nfhowers of rain. The latter proved very\nacceptable to us, as we collected feveral\nhogflieads, and though it was ftrongly\nimpregnated\n impregnated with the flavour of the tar,\nwhich it had contracted from the rigging,\nftill in our prefent fituation it was much\ntoo valuable to be loft.\nOn Sunday, April 13th, at fix in the\nmorning we faw Palmerfton's Ifland bearing W. At noon our obferved latitude\nwas 18 \u00C2\u00B0 6' S. and longitude 197 \u00C2\u00B0 23''\nE. when it bore W. by N. diftant about\nfive leagues. In the courfe of the day,\nwe had light variable winds, and during\nthe night flood off and on. In the morn-\ning (April. 14th), at four,'the land bore\nW. between three and four leagues diftant.\nAt eight, boats from both {hips wereient\nto found, but returned in the afternoon,\nhaving found no proper anchorage, but\nhad difcovered a kind \"of inlet or break\nin the reef, where the boats might land\nwith fafety.-\nOur firftcare the next day (April 15th)\nwas to cut grafs fofrthe ftock, which were\nin a moft piteous condition, nor did we\nthink of engaging in any other bufinefs\nE 2 \ ' till\n .\n.$- * ( 52 ) f\ntill we had got a fufficient quantity to\nmaintain them till our arrival at the\nFriendly Ifles. After this the people\nwere employed in gathering coco nuts^\nwhich were diftributed to the fhip's company. The grafs and nuts being brought\non board, we, on Friday evening (April\n17 th}, bore away, fleering a wefterly\ncourfe.\nPalmerfton's Ifland lies in latitude 18 \u00C2\u00B0\n4' S. and 1960 40' E. longitude ; it was\ndifcovered and thus called by Captain\nCook in his laft voyage. It confifts of an\nextenfive reef, which is nearly feven\nleagues in circumference : upon different\nparts of this reef, rifes a fmall patch of\nland, of which there are in all nine.\nThe largeft is not more than a mile and\nhalf in circumference ; fome of them not\n1-50 yards. Within the reef is a lagoon,\nwhich, as far as we faw, had no connection with the fea: it appeared to be in\nfome places between two and three fathom deep.\nThs\n \u00E2\u0080\u0094 \u00C2\u00AB =\u00C2\u00AB\t\nt 53 )\nThe produce of this place confifts prin^\nclpally of coco nuts, and very fine fcur-\nvy-grafs. The only inhabitants we faw\nwere rats, lizards, man of war and\ntropic birds, boobies, noddies and a\n. few curlews. The tropic and man of\nwar birds were fo numerous, that the\ntrees were abfolutely loaded with them,\nand at the fame time fo tame as to fuffer\nthemfelves to be taken off the boughs ;\na convincing proof that they are never\nmolefted by any hujnan beings.\nThe reef affords fhelter for variety of\nexcellent fifh, particularly a large eel,\nwhich we found moft excellent eating.\nThis fifh is very ugly in itsv appearance,\nwhich is fuflicient to create horror and\ndifguft, and had it not been for Omai,\nwho told us it was very fine, it is more\nthan probable that we fhould have remained ignorant of its goodnefs. The\nidea which it would firft ftrike one with,\nis that of a large fnake ; its length is between four and five feet, and fpotted or\nE 3 variegated\n \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n**\"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nw4$\n( 54 )\nvariegated with brown and black ; in cir*\ncumference it is about ten or twelve\ninches ; the head is fmall and rather flat,\nwith fmall fiery eyes ; the part, immediately behind the head is as it were fwelled\ncr puffed up to a confiderable fize ; the\nmouth is wide and well armed with fmall\nbut very fharp teeth. There are likewife\nan incredible number of fharks continually\nlurking about the reef, which though fmall\nare very ravenous. None of our boats\ncould pafs or repafs to the fhips, without\ntwelve or fourteen of thefe gentry after\nthem, fo that if any of our people had been\nunfortunate enough to fall overboard, they\nmuft inevitably have been devoured.\nUpon the beach,' we found the remains\nof a cance, and a piece of plank, which\nappeared to have compofed part of an\nEuropean veffel. Some diftance from thefe\nwas another piece of wood, rudely carved,\nwhich, from ,the figures upon it, Omai\nfaid had once belonged to a burying place\nof fome iflands in thefe feas.\nW: ' ' ' ' ,:M' We\n We paffed Savage Ifland (fo denominated laft voyage on account of| the ferocity of its inhabitants) on the 23d in-\nftant at midnight, when it bore from\nW. by S toN. W.'byN. Our weather\nwas in general cloudy and fqually, with\nthunder, lightning, and heavy rain. On\nMonday evening (April 28th), being according to our reckoning not far from\nthe eaftermoft of the Friendly Ifles, we\npaffed the night in ftanding to the northward and fouth ward. The next day\n(29th), at nine in the morning, we de-\nfcried the eaftern range of thofe iflands\nfrom the maft-head. At noon, they bore\nfrom N, W. by N. to W. by N. our .\ndiftance from the neareft being about\nfour miles., v\nAt four, we had no lefs than fifteen\niflands in fight, the largeft of which,\ncalled by the natives Anamooka, by us\nRotterdam, bore N. W. | N. At fix\nthe Refolution made the fignal for calling\nanchor, and half an hour after both fhips\nE 4 came\n came to j Three Hill Ifland (a fmall ifle\nwith three elevations upon it) bearing\nN. W. by N. The night was very\nfqually, with thunder and lightning.\nApril 30th, in the morning, at fix, we\nweighed, and made fail, fhaping our\ncourfe for Anamooka, as well as variable\nwinds would permit. At nine, many of\nthe natives put off in their canoes, and\ncame along-fide without any hefitation or\nappearance of fear, and totally unarmed.\nThis confidence which they repofed in\nus, was, we thought, a proof, and a convincing one too, of a peaceable and friend*\nly difpofition, and the name by which\nthefe iflaiids are diftinguifh ed, viz.\nFriendly, is well applied. We pur-\nchafed of them (for all their canoes were\nfreighted with fome good thing or other)\ncoco nuts, fowls, bread-fruit, and yams,\nfor which we paid beads, nails, knives,\nand fmall piece? of red cloth. At noon\nthe weather became fo thick and hazy with\nhard rain* that we were not able to dif-\ntinguifh\n - \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 .f. ( 57 ) . \u00E2\u0096\u00A0'.\ntinguifh the land, and all the afternoon\nand night we were employed in Handing\noff and on9 not being able to find an an*\nchoring place.\nThe next day (May ift), at noon, Ana- J\nmooka bore E. | S. about four miles diftant. At fix in the afternoon we anchored in forty-feven fathom, fandy bottom, the north point of Anamooka bearing E. N. E. diftant five miles. At daylight (Friday 2d) we got up our anchor,\nand inade fail. Numbers of the natives\ncame off to us, and we foon purchafed a\nfufficient quantity of hogs, yams, plantains, fowls, &c. &c. for the fhip's company, and bid adieu to every fpecies of\nfhip's provifion except grog. At noon\nthe extremes of Anamooka bore S. E. by\nS. and S. \u00C2\u00A7 W. diftant from the neareft\nfhore three miles. At four in the afternoon, both veffels anchored, and foon after\nwere moored a cable each way, the bef):\n)}Ower of the Difcovery being in feventeen\nfathom, the fmall bower in twenty-feven\nfathom,\n ( 53 )\nfathom, her diftance from the reef about\nthree cables length.\nCHAP. VII. \u00C2\u00A7\nCaptain Cook's order relative to trade\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nthe tents erected^ and markets held op\nJhore\u00E2\u0080\u0094the Difcovery parts her fmall\nbower cable\u00E2\u0080\u0094the arrival of Feenow\u00E2\u0080\u0094the\nDifcovery parts her beft bower cable\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nCaptain Cook accompanies Feenow to Hap-\npi with the Jhips\u00E2\u0080\u0094receives great civilities\nthere\u00E2\u0080\u00944s entertained with boxing and\nwrefiling matches and dances\u00E2\u0080\u0094departs\nfrom Happi \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the paffage to Anamooka\nvery dangerous\u00E2\u0080\u0094arrival of Powlahow*\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nwho proves to be the king\u00E2\u0080\u0094Jlriclures on\nFeenow's conduB\u00E2\u0080\u0094Powlahow vifits the\nJhips\u00E2\u0080\u0094Feenow arrives and pays him ho^\nmage.\nS foon as the fhips were fecured,\nCaptain Cook iffued an order to\nprohibit all trade, except for neceffaries,\nwhich was read to the fhip's companies.\n6 - | fill The\n )\n( S9\nThe fubftance of it was, that there fhould\nbe a perfon appointed from both fhips to\nhold a market with the natives on fhore,\nfor fuch provifions as the ifland produced.\nThat two other perfons fhould likewife\nbe appointed to trade on board; and that\nnone other fhould prefume to pur chafe or\nbuy, without leave of the captain, or, in\nhis abfence, that of the commanding officer.\nThat no curiofities fhould be bought\ntill the fhips had procured a fufficient\nflock of refrefhment; after which a general trade would be opened, and every\none at liberty to purchafe what he thought\nproper.\nThe next day (May 3d) the aftrono-\nmers tents, inftruments, &c<||were got\non fhore, together with the coopers, the\nempty cafks, &c. and the marines. The\nchief of the ifland furnifhed us with a\nlarge hut for our reception on fhore, in\nthe front of which the market was held ;\n* a line\n Ill\nt\nv\n60\n)\na -line was drawn between the natives\nand us,. at fome diftance from the hut,\nto prevent their crowding too near, and\nnone of them were permitted to come\nwithin it. We were abundantly fupplied\nwith hogs, fowls, yams, plantains, breadfruit, and coco nuts, and in fhort fared\nfumptuoufly every day.\nOn the fourth, a party of men were\nfent to cut wood, as the ifland apparently afforded plenty of that article ; amongft\nother trees they unluckily cut down feveral of the manchineel, the juice of which\ngetting into their eyes, rendered them\nblind for feveral days. In the afternoon,\nthe Difcovery's final! bower cable parted,\nhaving been divided by the rocks ; the\nftreamranchor was directly carried out to\nfteady the fhip to the weftward, but the\nebb tide run fo ftrongly to the eaftward,\nthat they were obliged to poftpone it till\nflack water, which was near twelve at\nnight. Moft of the boats and people\nwere employed the next morning in\nfweeping\n ( \"6i J\nfweeping for the anchor, which was too\nValuable an article to be loft; they did\nnot fucceed however till the afternoon*\nwhen they purchafed it by the buoy rope.\nThe cable was cut about twenty-eight\nfathoms from the anchor.\nIn the courfe of this day we were vi-\nfited by a chief, whofe name the natives\ntold us was Feenow 5, this man came\nfrom the ifland of Tonga-taboo or Amfterdam ; he had a numerous retinue,\nwho paid him great refpect. One of\nthem, who appeared to be a principal man,\nmade a long oration, in the courfe of\nwhich he gave us to underftand, that\nFeenow was Agee-lahee, or king of Anamooka, and all the furrounding ifles, of\nwhich he enumerated near a hundred.\nThere were likewife feven or eight fine\nharidfonle girls with him, which we were\ntold were his wives.\nHaving, before the arrival of this chief,\nloft feveral things from the fhips, which\nwe could impute to iio one hut the Inn\ndians*\n frill!\nif\nPii!\ndians, the Captain complained to him of\nthe thefts, and begged that he would exert his authority, and get them reftored :\nFeenow promifed to do it, and in the\ncourfe of the day they were returned.\nThe bottom where the Difcovery lay\nbeing very rocky and uneven, Captain\nGierke determined to fhift it farther to\nthe weftward. The next day (May 7th)\nhe gave orders to weigh the ftream-anchor,\nand heave fhort upon the beft bower ; but\nthe united force of the whole fhip's company were not able to purchafe it, the\ncable having got foul of a rock ; they\nwaited till flack water, when the fhip\nwould tend to the ebb tide and probably\nclear it, but at eleven the cable parted.\nThe recovery of this anchor caufed an infinite deal of trouble, as it had got in a\nhole between the rocks, and could only\nbe feen when the water was perfectly\nfmooth ; but at laft, after a number of\nunfuccefsful trials, they were lucky\nenough to weigh it.\nFeenow\n ( H )\nFeenow had for fome days paft been\nvery defirous that Captain Cook would\naccompany him to fome iflands, which he\nfaid were about two days fail from Anamooka ; thefe iflands he called Happi,\nwhich in the language of thefe people\nfignifies a clufier. As this bid fair for a\nnew difcovery, the Captain very readily\naccepted his invitation.\nOn Wednefday morning (May 14th)\nwe weighed, and made fail, and after a\ntroublefome and dangerous paffage, occa-\nfioned by the number of rocks and fhoals\nthrough which we were partly obliged to\npafs, arrived at Happi on the 17th. We\nhere experienced a repetition of thofe civilities from Feenow, which we founJ at\nAnamooka ; every thing was conducted\nwith the greateft regularity and decorum,\nand in fhort, nothing was wanting to render our flay as agreeable as poffible.\nHe entertained us with boxing and\nwreftling matches, and variety of dances\nboth by men and women, which exceeded\nevery\n wmx?\nI'Tmil'iilt \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nmaw\nm\nmi\niill\n( H ) .\u00C2\u00A7 /\nevery thing of the kind that was ever feeri\nbefore. An idea cannot be conveyed by\nwords, for their attitudes were fo various\nand different from any other dances, and\nat the fame time fo regular and exact*\nthat the whole company, which confifted\nof thirty or forty people, feemed to be\nactuated by one foul.\nFeenow having given a fpecimen of\nwhat his countrymen could do, defired\nCaptain Cook to entertain him with fome*\nthing in our way. The next day (May\n30th) the marines frorn both fhips were*\nfent on fhore to] perform their exercife^\nwhich however did not appear to ftrike\nhim with any very great furprize. Probably, he was confcious of his fuperiority\nover us in that particular; at leaf! if he\nwas not, mofl of us were. \"However,\nleft he fhould think us a parcel of poof\ncreatures altogether, a number of fireworks were fet off in the evening, which\nfeemed v to turn the balance iri our fa\nvour.\nOa\n ' II ('65 I f\nOn the 29th, we weighed our anchors,\nand made fail. Sunday (June iff) in\nthe evening, it being very fqually, wet,\nand dark, the Refolution made the fignal\nof danger, having got too near the\nbreakers, upon a reef of coral rock, which\nalmoft furrounded us, but fortunately\nfhe foon cleared them. On the ad, at one\nin the afternoon, the weather became fo\nfqually, that Captain Cook thought it prudent to eaft anchor, for we were enclofed\non every fide with rocks and fhoals, and\nthe violence of the wind prevented us\nfrom feeing in what direction to proceed :\nwe accordingly dropped our beft bowers\nin forty-three fathom water, with a fandy\nbottom,and took in our top-gallant-yards.\nThis difagreeable weather continued\ntill the 4th, during which time we underwent a good deal of anxiety, for our fitu-\nation was truly alarming, as we muft unavoidably have gone upon the rocks if\nour cables had parted. Having got up\nour anchors, we agiin made fail, and on\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Vol. I. ' f:: F I the/.\nill\n Ill\nJiiJii\nIBIWI\nifell\nthe 6th, at three in the afternoon, an>*\nchored off Anamooka,. about three quarters of a mile from fhore.\nOne of Captain Cook's reafons for flopping here a fecond time, was to look at\nfome melons and cucumbers, the feeds of\nwhich he had planted fobn after our arrival in May ; but to his great regret\nthey were in a very poor flate, having\nbeen nearly deftroyed by vermin.\nThe day after our fecond arrival here,\nwe were informed that another great man\nfrom Tonga-Taboo, or Amfterdam, was\narrived, whofe name was Fatafee-Powla-\nhow. This gentleman foon after came^\non board; he was above the middle fize,=\nexceeding fat, and appeared to be about\nforty. His attendants were numerous,\nand there was not one of them but told\nias that this man was the real king of\nTonga-Taboo, Anamooka, Happi, and in\nfhort all the iflands which we before fup-\npofed Feenow king of.. I This ftrange account furprifed us a good deal, as every\nbody\n body had taken it for granted that Fee-\nnow was fovereign, every mark of re-\nfpect and fubmiffion being paid him, and\nhow to account for the ufurpation (if\nfuch it was) of this man, was a circum-\nflance we could not readily fucceeded in.\nFeenow had gone the day before our\ndeparture from Happi, to a neighbouring\nifland called Va-vow, from which he was\nto return at the end of three days, with\na large flock of red feathers and various\nother things. The time elapfed, but no Fee-\nnow appeared. This circumftance, though\nit did not flrike us then, appeared againft\nhim now with double force, and gave us\ngreat reafon to fuppofe, that our old\nfriend had really affumed a title to which\nhe had no right, and that in fact he was\nabfent for no other reafon, but to avoid\nan interview with Powlahow, in the courfe\nof which all his confequence muft fall\nto the ground.\nPowlahow, during his flay on board,paid\ngreat attention to the different parts of the\nF 2 fhip,\n M-\nlifi n\nHBTr-1*! ''\nill\nfhip, and, amongfl other queftions, afked\nus what we came to< thefe iflands \u00C2\u00A3m ?\nHe faid, we appeared to be in want of\nnothing, and that we all looked well and\nin health* A queflion of this kind came\nfo unfufpected, that at firft the Captain\nwas at a lofe what reply to make, but\nrecollecting himfelf, he told him he came\nthere by the order of his King, who was a\ngreat and mighty prince, and was defiroim\nof entering into a league of friendfhip\nwith him ; that there was a large flock\nof hatchets, knives, beads, red cloth,\n&c. on board, which he would barter with\nhim for hogs, and fuch articles as the\nifland produced. This anfwer fatisfied\nhim very well, and at the defire of the\nCaptain he went down with him into the\ngreat cabin, where he received a prefent\nfuitable to his rank, and then went oa\nboard his canoe very much pleafed*\nThe next morning Feenow arrived,\nand in the prefence of fome of our gentlemen, who by chance were with Powlahow*\n \\n( 69 )\nlaow, acknowledged tim as his fuperior\nand paid him the homage of a fubject,\nbut with a countenance fo expreflive of\nihame, that every one who faw him felt\nfor and pitied him. Feenow's conduct\nwas however natural enough ; for moft\npeople are anxious to appear greater than\nthey really are, efpecially if they are likely to gain any thing by it, which moft\nprobably was the cafe with him ; and in\nthis refpect it anfwered his purpofe very\nwell, for he received many prefents on\nthat account, which otherwife would not\nhave been given him. We found however, that though he was not king, he\nwas one of the principal men, and gene-\nraliffimo of the king's forces, and upon\nall oeeafions led them out to battle.\n* 3\n (\n7\u00C2\u00B0\n?ii\ni\n111\nCHAP. VIII.\nThe flips leave Anamooka\u00E2\u0080\u0094the paffage fa\nAmfterdam dangerous on account of the\nrocks\u00E2\u0080\u0094arrival there\u00E2\u0080\u0094are informed that\n: Malla-wagga i: King\u00E2\u0080\u0094the Capta ns vifit\nhim^ but are difappointed\u00E2\u0080\u0094Malla-wagga\npays homage to Powlahow\u00E2\u0080\u0094the Captains\naccompany Powlahow to Moa> to be pre-\nfent at a ceremony called Anache\u00E2\u0080\u0094account of that ceremony\u00E2\u0080\u0094arrival at Mid-\ndleburgh\u00E2\u0080\u0094departure for Otaheitee.\n.\"F N the afternoon we got up our anchors\nA and made fail, attended by Powlahow and Feenow, in their canoes, which\nwent at a great rate, and a number of\nfmaller ones. The royal canoe was di-\nftinguifhed from the reft by a fmall bundle of grafs, of a red colour, fattened to\nthe end of a pole, and fixed in the flern\nof the canoe in the fame manner as our\nenfign ftaffs,\nk \u00C2\u00A7'' \" v\" ... Wc\n { 7l\nWe found this paffage a moft trouble^-\nfeme and dangerous one ; we could clearly\nperceive the bottom (which was one continued bed of coral), throughout the time,\nand here and there a rock towering its\nhead above the reft. The Difcovery did\nfall foul of one, and had we not the ad*\nvantage of fmooth water and a fleady\nbreeze, in all probability we might have\nrun upon more of them.\nOn the ninth, at eleven in the morning, the Refolution let go her anchor, as\ndid the Difcovery foon after, but ftill fur-\nrounded in a manner by rocks. Amfterdam, or Tonga-Taboo, then bore S, 75\nW. but at a good diftance. The boats were\nfoon after fent away to look for a more\nfecure place for the fhips, and having\nfound one, we removed to it, and at five\nanchored for the night in about eight fa-^\nthorn, fandy bottom,. The next morning\n(June 10th) we weighed and flood for Amfterdam, and in the afternoon both fhips let\ngo their anchors in a fine fecure- harbour,\nF 4 oi^r\nII f:\n ( 1 I\ndepth of water being ten fathom, with a\nblack fandy bottom ; our diftance fr@m\nthe fhore about half a mile.\nThe next day (June nth) the tents and\nobfervatories were got on fhore, and the\ngunner of each fhip appointed to trade\nwith the natives\". The market was held\nin a pleafant fpot of ground, furr6unded\nwith trees, and in the front of one of\nPowlahow's houfes, adjoining to which\nthe fhips tents were pitched. Every\narticle of trade was in the greateft plenty\nexcept bread-fruit, the feafon for which\nwas then over ; but the want of this wasj\namply fupplied by yams and tarrow.\nThe cattle likewife were fent on fhore,\nas they had been at Anamooka.\nIn the courfe of the day wq were vsx-\nformed that a very old man, whofe name .\nwas Malla-wagga, was the real King of\nall thefe iflands, but being overwhelmed\nby the infirmities of age, he was unr\nable to hold the reins of government,\nwhich were therefore turned over to\nPowlahow.\n \u00C2\u00BB*UWii Hi\nill\n (73\nPowlahow. This circumftance appeared very ftrange to us, no lefs than three\npeople having been pointed out to us\nas king ; but as this was the cafe, the\nCaptains thought it neceffary to pay their\nrefpects to him, and informed Powlahow\nof their intentions, who readily agreed\nto accompany them. In the morning\nCaptains Cooke and Gierke, attended by\nOmai, Powlahow, and fome of the officers,\nfet off by water (having a man with them\nto act as pilot), for his refidence, which\nwas at a part of the. ifland called Moa,\nand about fix miles diftant.\nUpon their arrival, they were received\nby a large concourfe of people, who ex-\npreffed the greateft fatisfaction at feeing\nthem. After walking' a few paces, Powlahow went into a plantation, attended by\nan old woman, and put on a very fine garment and a kind of large mat, after which\nthey all went to a pleafant green, for-\nrounded by tall majeftic trees: on one\n~ fide was a fpacious houfe, where the\nCaptains\n I\n^*m\nIS]\nI 'I (;\nCaptains feated themfelves, Powlahow\nfitting under the hedge of a plantation.\nAfter waiting fome time, in eonftant\nexpectation of being introduced to his\nmajefty, and not feeing any probability\nof its being done, Powlahow was afked\nthe reafon of the delay : he told them\nthat Malla-wagga was gone down to the\nfhips. The gentlemen were not perfectly \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 pleafed with this intelligence, after\nhaving been at the trouble of going fo far,\nin an exceeding hot day; however, finding\nhis majefty was not vifible, they made the\nbeft of it, and returned to the boats.\nMoa is a moft pleafant fpot, and much\nfuperior to that part of the ifland where\nour tents were erected, which probably\nis the reafon why the king and nobility\nrefide there*\nThe houfes are all very good, and in.\ngeneral large, fome of them being be^?\nbetween fifty or fixty feet in length,\nfixteen or eighteen feet wide, and lofty\nenough to admit of an upper floor. The\nwood\n . ft \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 '. 'I 7S } l\nwood work is good, and lafhed or tied\ntogether with line of different colours,\nfo difpofed as to form diamonds and various other figures. They are all well\nthatched, and will not admit a drop of\nrain ; the bottoms or floor are covered\nwith mats.\n\u00C2\u00A7||Upon the return of the Captains to the\nfhips, they found that no Malla-wagga\nhad been there j a piece of information\nwhich perplexed them a good deal, being\ntotally unable to account for Powlahow's\nbehaviour. The next morning Feenow\ncame on board, and told us he was going\nfor the old man ; they both returned the\nfollowing day. As foon as his majefty\ncame on board, he faw Powlahow, who\nchanced to be there, and to the furprife\npf us al|, paid him homage, by bowing\nand touching his feet.\nThis extraordinary circumftance puzzled us all, not a perfon in either fhip\nbeing able to unravel the myftery. What\ncould induce Powlahow himfelf to carry\n6 the\n ' . ' ( 76 ) I I\nthe Captains to fee the old man as king,\nwhen he mull be confcious that he really\nwas not, is certainly very ftrange.\nMalla-wagga is the father of Feenow\nandTubou (the latter a man of great power\nand confequence in the ifland), and Pow-\nlahow's father, whofe name was Fatafee\nPowlahow, is dead, and it is by no means\nclear that Malla-wagga could ever have\nbeen king. He has been generaliflimo, a\npoft which his fon Feenow now poffefles, as\nhas been mentioned before. Thefe miftakes\nhowever muft arife from our imperfect\nknowlege of their language, which is the\nonly clue to guide us to the truth. We\nalfo received another piece of intelligence ;\nwhich was that Powlahow's aunt, by the\nfather's fide, was nominally queen of all\nthe Iflands, to whom he himfelf paid\nhomage, as well a$ to a fon and daughter\nof her's by a man of Fidgi (an ifland\nabout five days fail from Amfterdam) j\nand that during her life they alfo were\nfuperior to him in point of rank, but\nupon\n ( 77 ) : \ .\nupon her death all their confequence\nceafes. Both fon and daughter are disordered in their fenfes ; the name of the\nformer is Latoo-labooloo. Malla-wagga is\na very old man, apparently not Iefs than\nfeventy, and is at times quite childifti :\nhe was much better pleafed with a few\nbeads than with hatchets or nails.\nHaving expreffed a defire of feeing our\nmethod of fighting, an account of which\nhe had probably heard from his fon\nFeenow, Captain Cook ordered all the\nmarines on fhore for that purpofe. In\nreturn for this piece of complaifance,\nwe were entertained with fome capital\nheivahs or entertainments, in which all\nthe principal people affifled, efpecially\nTubow, who was one of the firft rate performers.\nJuly 8th, the Captains and fome other\ngentlemen were invited by Powlahow'to\nbe prefent at a ceremony, which he called\nAnache, the meaning of which we could\nnot clearly comprehend, but it feems to\nbe.\n ( 73 ) ; ;|\nbe, the people fwearing allegiance to his\nfon, and poflibly is always obferved when\nthe child arrives at a certain age. Before\nthis ceremony he was never fuffered to\neat with his father, but afterwards will\nalways fit at table with him.\nm\nThe company arrived at Moa (the place\nmentioned before) about eight in the\nmorning, and found Powlahow with about\nfifty of his nobles about him, drinking\na'wa. Going a little farther, they obferved a great number of people affem-\nbled, and fitting on each fide the road of\na fpacious green furrounded with lofty\ntrees; they immediately called out Taboo,\nand defired the Captains, &c. to fit down\nand pull off their hats.\nIn one place fat fix or feven agees or\nchiefs finging, and by them were lying\nfeveral flicks, with a fmall yam tied to\neach. After continuing their fong for\nfome time, two of them took one of the\nabove flicks with a yam, and carried it\nbetween them upon their fhoulders, followed\n f - ( \u00E2\u0084\u00A2 1 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 I '\nlowed by five or fix others with clubs\nand fpears : this was repeated by a like\nnumber of people feveral times. The\nyams were depofited under a large fpread-\ning tree on a green, facing a burial-place ;\nafter which all the agees, except three or\nfour, went away.\nThey being gone alfo^ a man came\ncarrying a pigeon on a flick, but it was\nnot left under the tree with the yams.\nHere a paufe enfued, and the gentlemen\nafking if the ceremony was over, were\ntold no, but that Taboo would come\njrefentry,during which time they could not\nbe upon the fpot, but might retire behind\nthe fence of a plantation not far off, through\nwhich they might look and fee the whole,\nOmai being of their own complexion^\nand dreffing himfelf in their manner was\nreadily admitted, and Captain Cook being\ndefirous of feeing the whole, was with\nmuch difficulty fuffered to be prefent,\nthough not till he had ftripped himfelf\nfrom his. waift upwards-\n,; At\n 180 )\nAt four in the afternoon the bthef\ngentlemen were conducted to the fence of\nthe plantation, and on looking through\nfaw a number of people affembled together under the fame tree the yams\nwere left in the morning. Soon after\ncame the prince (a fine boy about twelve\nyears old) attended by three agees, and\nfollowed by fifteen couple of women,\neach couple carrying a long flip of white\ncloth. The prince then feated himfelf on\nthe green with his attendants, as did the\nwomen, who delivered the cloth, and then\nrofe up and feated themfelves at a diftance.\nImmediately after this, feveral men came\nwith each his coco nut branch and large\nflick, and in the fpace of three minutes\nmade a commodious little houfe, to which\nthe prince withdrew with the agees who\nattended him. After that came Powlahow attended by two men, and fat down\nat a fmall diftance from the houfe A\nfhort paufe enfued, when upon fomething\nbeing faid by a man who appeared to be\nmafter\n niaftef of the ceremonies, feveral of the\npeople who were feated ran off, and after\na fhort flay returned. Then two men came,\nwith each a green bough in his hand,\nmade their obeifance to the prince, and\nfor a few minutes fat before him. That\ndone, the agees with the yams came in\nby pairs, laid them down at his feet,\nand feated themfelves round him ; when\nthe man, mentioned before as mafter of\nthe ceremonies, made a fpeech, and was\nanfwered by different people, feemingly\nin the affirmative. The harangue Continued about a quarter of an hour, after\nwhich all the people difperfed, and thus\nended the ceremony for the day.\nThe next day it was repeated with fome\nlittle variation $ for they prefented him\nwith fifh of different kinds and awa ; and\nbefides the women's bringing cloth, fome\nof the men laid mats befpre him, which\nwith the cloth were wrapped round him,\nfo that by the time the whole Was over,\nhe hid more things upon him than he\nWol* I. * G could\n p>\n( S2 f '\ncould move under. The whole ccnqjuded\nwith entertainments of be>xiag, wreftling,\ndancing^, &c.\nThis ceremony feeins to be an allegorical or figurative acknowledgement of the\nobedience of the people to their prince.\nThe yams which were brought probably\nimplied, that they would always fupply\nhim with whatever was neceflaty for the\nfupport of life, as good fubjects ought to\ndo. The cloth brought by the women\n(which is their peculiar manufacture)\nmight have nearly the fame meaning,\nand fo of the fifh and awa. The fubftance\nof the fpeech might be to inform the-\npeople, that the prince was arrived at\nfuch an age, \u00C2\u00B0and. to know if they would\nacknowledge him as kino: after the death\nof his father, to which it is likely they\ngave an anfwer in the affirmative.-\nJuly 10th, Captain Cook prefented\nPowlahow wTith a bull and cow, a fow\nand boar, and two ducks. To Feenow*\nhe gave a horfe and mare, and to Malla-\n||wagga<\n h\n\"^ifegga a ram and two ewes ; but the old\ngentleman paid fo little attention to them',.\nthat the captain ordered them to be\nbrought on board again.\nOn the morning of the I ith, both the-\nfhips weighed, and made fail, and were\nemployed till fix at night in turning to the\neaftward, between two reefs not more\nthan a quarter of a mile afunder.\nAt feven we anchored, but having frefh\ngales and fqually weather, the Difcovery\ndrove off the bank, and was obliged to\n, Weigh hef anchor^ and make fail: fhe\ncontinued working to windward till one\nthe next morning, arid then anchored a-\ngairi. During the night we had frefh gale\nat nine in the morning, (July 12th) w\n|jot in the boats ; and at eleven weighed\nour anchors. We continued turning to\nthe eaftward till the 1 :th, when we came\\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 to, off the weft fide of Middleburgh, and\nfoon after we moored fhip ; when the\nM*. W. part of Middleburgh bore N*\n16 E; a fmall ifland N. 1^ W. the.\nn G 2 eaft\nb\nm\n \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 (84 y\neaft part of Amfterdam N. 30 W. and\nthe S. part N. 78 W. our diftance from\nfhore three quarters of a mile.\nSoon after we had fecured the fhips,\na. double canoe arrived from Amflerdanv\nprobably with inftructions to the people at\nwhat rate to fell their various articles, and\nto inform them of the prices we had given.\nThe following day the gunners were fent\non fhore as ufual, to trade, and found\nabundance of every thing,, particularly\nfhaddocks, with which this ifland abounds.\nThe natives treated us with civility, but\nnot in the fame degree as at the other\niflands. We ftaid here till the 17th fn-\nftant, when the fhips being ready for fear\nand every thing got on board, we weigh\ned our anchors, and made fail, fhaping\nour courfe' for Otahertee, having fome live\nhogs on board, a number of yams, and\nfome cafks of corned pork.\nCHAR\n i 8S )\nCHAP. IX.\nAccount of the Friendly Iflands -produce\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nanimals\u00E2\u0080\u0094defcription of the natives\u00E2\u0080\u0094drefc\nUp houfes\u00E2\u0080\u0094food\u00E2\u0080\u0094cookery\u00E2\u0080\u0094a mufe merits\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nmanufactures\u00E2\u0080\u0094canoes\u00E2\u0080\u0094burial places\u00E2\u0080\u0094*\nfuneral ceremonies\u00E2\u0080\u0094form of government\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nweapons,.\nMANY particulars have already been\nrelated of thefe iflands in the\ncourfe of the laft voyage; but as our flay\namong them this time was of a much\nlonger duration, of courfe we had a greater\nfcope for obfervations. But much remains for future navigators ; the moft\nperfect account we can produce is at beft\nbut a confufed piece of work, and what\nlittle we can relate is in general confined\nto a few common articles, fuch as the drefs,\nfood, and manufactures of the natives;\n^every thing beyond being little more than\n\u00C2\u00A3onje&ure. It is from the form of govern*\n-S; G 3 ment?\n I 7I|\n|, 86 )\nment, laws, manners, cuftpms, and religik\non of a people, that we are to derive m\nrnufement and inftruction : and as the\nonly road to obtain this, is by a knowledge of the language of the country,\nevery account that can be given muft of\ncourfe fall far fhort of the truth, till that\nknowledge is acquired\nAnamooka, or Rotterdam, lies in lat. i\n20 deg. 14 min. S. it is almoft furround-\ned by a reef of coral rock, and affords no\ngood harbour. The foil is rich and fertile, except when you approach the fhore,\nwhere it becomes fandy: it is of a very\nmoderate elevation, and is well clothed\nwith trees of various kinds, but affords\nbut little good water, on which account\n{he natives are obliged to go inland for\nwhat they ufe in cooking.\nOur watering-place was nearly a quarter of a mile from the beech, and was in\nfact nothing more than a ftanding pool,\nin which the natives bathed themfelves -5\nthe water was both thick and muddy, an^\nnot\n 87 |\nsiot very palatable, but we found no bad\neffects from the ufe of it.\nThe Happi iflands Jay in about a S. W.\ndirection from* Anamooka; Lefoogo,\nwhich is the name of that, off which the\nfhips anchored, is in latitude 19 deg. 46\nmin. S. and longitude 18 5 deg. 1 o min.\nE. They are all (at leaft all we law) low,\nflat iflands of fmall dimenfions, and afford\nbut little water : moft of them are well\ncovered with trees, which prove the foil\nto be good.\nTonga-taboo, or Amfterdam, is in lat.-\nmin. S. and 185 d\neg. 8 min.\no\nE. longitude. It is the largeft that we\nfaw of the Friendly Ifles, and is low and\nflat, without the leaft elevation. Water\nhere alfo is a fcarce article, fo much fo\nthat we were obliged to dig a well upon\na fmall ifland about three miles from the\nfhips; but after all, it proved - brackifh\nand unpalatable, fi\nMiddleburg, or Eaoowe, is to the\nnorthward of Amfterdam, in lat. 21 deg.\nG 4 21\n (SB )\n21 min. S. This ifland is by far the moft-\npleafant of the whole, and is interfperfed\nwith lawns, hills, and dales, as beautiful\nas can be conceived. The foil upon the\nhills is nearly of the colour of red-oker,\nthat in the vallies black and rich. It affords fine water, but not convenient for\nthe ufe of fhips, being too far inland.\nThe iflands of Va-vow and Fidgi we\nnever faw; but by the account of the natives they are both high land, and plentifully fupplied with water.\nThe foundation of all thefe iflands, is\na folid bed of coral rock, the points of\nwhich project even upon the tops of the\nhills in fome places. The inland parts\nare but thinly inhabited, the natives preferring thofe which are near eft the lea\nfor the convenience of launching their\ncanoes. This however muft not be taken\nin a general fenfe, for fome of the chiefs\nhave their houfes a confiderable diftance\nfrom the fhore.\nThe houfe^ do not form towns or vil~\nm 1 kges.\n I 89 )\nlages, but are built about five hundred\nyards or more from each other, and generally in the midft of a plantation, the\nwhole of which is frequently fenced in\nwith a hedge of bamboo, or reeds with a\ndoor-way; and fometimes a man's whole\neftate is inclofed in this manner.\nThefe iflands are populous, but we\ncannot pretend to afcertain the number\nof inhabitants. Their produce is breadfruit, plantains, bananas, coco nuts,\nyams, tarrow, a kind of fweet potatoe of\na yellow colour, a fruit refembling an apple, which we never faw ripe, fugar cane,\na nut [jnocarpus edulis, Forfl. Nov. Spec.\nPlant.) which eats much like a chefnut,\nparticularly when roafted, and very fine\nfhaddocks. The latter were very plentiful at Middleburgh; at Anamooka they\nwere fcarce, but at Amfterdam there were\nnone. They have alfo many trees in.\ncommon with the Society Ifles ; fuch as\nthe toa-tree [cafuarina equifetifolia. Forfl.)\nthe Chinefe paper mulberry-tree, the\ncandle\n ^n\n^iJill\ncandle-tree - (aleurites triloba^ Forfl.) $$\nBarringtonia fpeciofa, the athrodacJilis JpL\nno [a, and feveral others.\nme\nTheir tame animals are hogs, dogs, and\npoultry; they have likewife rats, and a\nvery large fpecies of bat [yefpertilio vam-\npyrus^ \n w\\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0i\nII '; I'-1'\nm,\nl\u00C2\u00AB\nm\n111\n.-\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0. 77I7 ; 1j|; p' :i ., 7 ;,\nfizes, in which they put their combs, fifE*\nhooks, and tools; two or three ftools,\nwhich they life as pillows, & bundle or\ntwo of cloth, and frequently a tame\npigeon upon a ftick. I -M^'^S':\nH As thefe iflands produce the fame ar-\ntides of food as the Society Ifles, of\ncourfe there can be no great variation in\ntheir manner of living. Bread-fruit, yams,\nplantains, and tarrow, generally conftitute\ntheir meals; for though they have hogs\nand fowls, they are only eaten upon particular occafions.' Their method of cooking them is the fame as at Otaheitee.\nSometimes they drefs a few fifh ; thefe\nthey boil in the green leaves of the plantain-tree, which ferve as a bag to hold\nboth fifh and water. Having tied thern\nup, they wrap them again in three or four\nother leaves, and place them upon a number of ftones made hot for that purpofe,\ntill they are done fufficiently. They then\ntake out the fifh, and pour the foup into\nlittle cups made of jthe green plantain\nleaf\n \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'.$ 97 J . *\nleaf, of which every one in company has\n*oiie, and as they eat the fifh they drink\na little of the foup, till both are expended.\nThey are not very nice iii cleaning the\nfifh, but eat bonesy guts, and fcales altogether. - i '\nW Their drink is water or coco nut milk\nin general: but the better fort of people\nalways take a draught of awa before they\neat; we never faw them ufe it at any\nother time, and even then, they are far\nmore moderate than the people of Otaheitee, and make it in a much cleanlier\nmanner. If\nThere is a law or cuftom here, which\nforbids, at particular times, a perfon of inferior rank to eat in the prefence of his\nfuperiors, and even Powlahow is not exempt from it; for upon the unexpected\nappearance of thofe two before mentioned people, whilft he has been eating,\nTie has immediately defifted, and put the\nvi&uals on one fide, apparently a good\ndeal confufed. ft -f If\n| Vol. L H They*\n Ill\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0rJf\nlli\nM\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 I ( 9 -1'. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 / '\nThey rife as foon as it is light, and-\nthe firft thing they do, is to wafh them-\nfelves in the fea, and afterwards in frefh-\nwater, which they collect in fmall wells5\nor pits dug for that purpofe. After this\nthey fit down to their breakfaft, which,\nas has been before obferved, generally\nconfifts of bread-fruit, yams, or plantains:\nthis ended, every one amufes himfelf as.\nhe thinks proper. If there is any bufmefa\ngoing forward, that of courfe becomes\nthe object; if not, they fit and difcourfe.\nof indifferent things.\nAs the heat of the day comes on, they\nfor the moft part fleep. Their firft meal\nbeing fo early, they generally eat again\nabout eleven, and in the afternoon about\nfour. At eight in the evening, or as\nr\nfoon as it becomes dark, they fup, and\nfoon after retire to reft.\nTheir amufements are dancing, wreft-\nling, finging, and boxing, at all which\nthey are very expert. The dances of the\nwomen are generally if not ajways in the\neyeoing.\n e\n('199 )\nevening, and by torch-light. Upon this\noccafion they are always well-dreffed :\ntheir heads are decorated with wreaths,\ncompofed of a plant fomething like ivy ;\nround their waift they wear an elegant\npiece of cloth, and over it a broad fringe\nof plantain leaves. | The whole of this\ndrefs is very becoming, and fets off their\nperfons, which are naturally good, to th\ngreateft advantage. Their movements\nare very regular, and they- keep excellent\ntime to their mufic, which confifts of\npieces of bamboo of various lengths, cut\noff at one of the joints. Thefe the men,\nk who perform^ the haftrumental part, hold\nin their hands, and ftrike one end againft\nthe ground ; this emits a hollow found,\ndeep in proportion to its length. One\nman likewife holds in one hand a piece\nof bamboo about three feet long, and\nwith the other ftrikes it with a fmall piece\nof flick, keeping time with the other\nmen; this mufic is far from being disagreeable. The muficians fit together,\nH 2 forming\n 55^^3^^\nf f i ob p\nforming a fmall circle, and the wometi!\ndance round them, and their attitudes\nand motions are beyond defcription.\nThe men very rarely intermix pf\u00C2\u00A7 the?\nwomen's dances, tfitjugrr we once faw Po-\nlahow-in the rriidft of them, and, notwith-\nftanding his corpulency, he kept as good\ntime as the beft of them. The dancer\nof the men differ very little from thofe\nof the women; but in their grand hei-\nvahs they fometimes perform together.\n\ The muficians in this cafe are more numerous, and moft of them fing, but not\nall in the fame key, for they have different parts, as we have of treble, bafe,.\ntenor, &c. ; and the harmony which\narifes when the mufic and fmging are\njoined is very pleafing. Befides the bamboo' they have a kind of drum, formed\"\nout of the hollowed*trunk of a tree, upPn\nwffith they ftrike with wooden drum-\nflicks ; this, ftrange as it may appear,\nadds much to the agreeablenefs of the\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0whole*\nTheir\n Their grand heivahs feem to be divided\n'into different acts : they firft begip. with\na dance of the men, which continues\nnear a quarter of an hour; and when\nfinifhed, another large party of performers come in, and divide themfelves in-\nito two companies, not forming a circle as\nin the dances, but a line, with the mufic\n;in front, fomething like this :\nPerformers.\nPerformers*\n.\u00C2\u00AB*\"\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00BB.\nMufic,\nEvery performer has a fmall wooden\ninftrument in his hand, about three feet\nlongi fhaped fomething like a bakers\npeel. As foon as the mufic ftrikes up,\nthey alfo begin and perform an incredible\nnumber of motions with this inftrument,\nH 3 all\n m\n(\n102\n)\nall moving as if only one man, with\ngreat quicknefs and in exact time to the\nmufic. After this has continued about\nfeven or eight minutes, they all, by very\ngradual and indeed almoft imperceptible\ndegrees, change places, fo that thofe who\nwere behind are now in front, and thofe\nwho were in front are now in the middle, obferving the different attitudes and\nmotions with the inftruments throughout\nthe time. This continues till they have\ngained their proper places, when\nthe two companies recede from each\nother ftill farther, and foon after two\nmen make their appearance, dreffed in a\nvery antic manner, with each a kind of\nclub in his hand. The various motions,\nactions and attitudes, which thefe two\nharlequins put themfelves into, together\nwith the regularity and exactnefs they\nobferve, are fuch as cannot be defcribed,\nand even if they could, perhaps would\nnot be credited. During their performance, the two companies remain inactive*\n \u00E2\u0080\u00A2jSB\nc\ni ^ I03!\nactive, but as foon as the harlequins ar\nretired, they begin again, but vary in their\nperformances, defcribing circles and fem>\ncircles in this manner,\n.\u00E2\u0099\u00A6 .\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00C2\u00AB. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nPerformers.\nPerformers. \\nPerformers.\n\"** 4* .\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 J 5 \u00C2\u00BB > .\n\u00C2\u00AB ; \u00C2\u00AB \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 - <\n1 \u00C2\u00BB - T \u00C2\u00AB ,\nPerformers.\nMufic.\nand exchange their places as before ; in\nftiort, the whole of their performance is\nfuch as does the greateft credit, not only\nto thofe who bear a part in it, but to the\npeople in general.\nTheir wreftling matches are much like\nthofe of Otaheitee, as is their mode of\nchallenging, viz. by ftriking with the\nhollow of their right hand upon the bended joint of their left elbow, which pro^\nduces a loud hollow found, fomething\nrefembling that of a child's pop-gun, it\nwill therefore be unneceffary to fay more\naJ)out it. \n A.\ndiftinction has one belonging to It. Thefe\nrepofitories of the dead are generally\nerected in fome retired fpot, and furround-\nett with trees of a particular kind, fuch as\nthe cafiiarina and athrodacJylis. The ground\nis elevated in the form of a mount, about\nthree or four feet high, upon the top of\nwhich are built three or four clofe\nhuts with a fmall door-way : in thefe\nthey depofit the bodies, and leave them*\nThe mount is fometimes enclofed with a\nwooden fence, and fometimes with flones.\nThefe places are in general about one\nhundred and fifty or two hundred feet\nin circumference, but fome are, much\nlarger and very neatly finifhed.\nOf the ceremonies attending a funeral\nwe can fay but very little, as only one\nthat we know of, occurred during our\nflay, and of this only one of our people\ngot an accidental view. He was defirous\nof feeing the whole, but they were quite\naverfe to an indulgence of that kind.\nUpon this occafion, he faid feveral of\nthenu\n m\nm\n( \"* }\nthem, both men and women, wore &\nwreath, made of a twining kind of plant,\nround their necks and waifls ; and by their\nlamentations and geflures he judged them\nto be relations of the deceafed. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nAll the information we could get of;\nthe natives relative to thefe affairs is, that\nupon the death of a perfon, all the relations affemble together, and make a dif-\nmal howling, beating themfelves upon\ntheir check-bones with their fifts till th^r\nblood runs. This is looked upon as a\ngreat mark of affection, and the more\nthey torture themfelves in this manner the\ngreater efteem they are fuppofed to have\nentertained for the deceafed. They alfo\ncut off the firft joint of their little-finger ;\nthe right-hand finger is dedicated to the\nfather, the left to the mother. Cutting\noff the hair is alfo another of their mourning ceremonies.\nThefe people believe the exiftence of\nthe foul in a feparate ftate, and that after\ndeath they go to a very pleafant place,\nmuch fuperior to that which they enjoy\nduring\n \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 . ( \"3 )\nduring life ; for they fay it abounds'with\nevery good thing they can poflibly wifh\nfor : but thefe bHfsful abodes are, according to them, entirely for the refidence of\nthe agees, thofe of inferior rank not being\nfuffered to have any fhare in them.\nThe form of government, with refpect\nto its foundation, is much the fame as at\nthe Society Ifles; but it is carried on\nwith much greater order and regularity,\nand a fuperior degree of refpect is fhewed\nto the king. No one dares to addrefs\nhim without firft paying him homage,\nwhich is done by kneeling down and\nbowing the head to his feet, which the\nperfon afterwards gently taps once with\nthe fingers and knuckles of each hand,\nafter which he feats himfelf at a diftanci|,\nand then proceeds to relate his bufinefs.\nThe agees always fit at a diftance, forming a femi-circle, the king being in front\nwith four or five of his attendants behind\nhim, and generally an old woman near\nhim, with a fan.\nif Vol. I. ' I ' \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\"; The\n i! 'flfl\n( \"4 | If. \"'\"\nThe crown is hereditary, and has been:\nin the prefent family for five generations.\nThe king's authority, though abfolute in\nalmoft every refpect, is flill in fome mea-\nfure curbed by Feenow and Tubow : the\nformer, Powlahow told us, could difpoffefs\nhim. of his throne,, and kill him if he was\na bad man. By which he probably meant,\nthat if he neglected the duty of his fixation, or acted in a manner that would\nprove prejudicial to the good or welfare\nof the ftate, Feenow could lawfully de-\npofe and kill him. Tubow is likewife a\nman of the firft confequence; his bufinefs\nis to infpect the wenuah-taboo, that is\nto examine the ftate of the iflands with\nrefpect to their produce, and if there is a\nprobability of any one fpecies of provifion\nfelling fhort (which fometimes is the cafe,\nparticularly when the feaforv proves dry),\nhe is to taboo it, or ifliie an order to forbid its being touched till the next feafon;\nBy thefe wife precautions they are entirely\niivefted of the fear of want Some few, days\nbefore\n :.. | . ( II5 f \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nbefore our departure from Amfterdam almoft every thing was tabooed, as our long\nflay had pretty well drained them of\nevery thing they could fpare.\nThe lower clafs of people are kept in\ngreat fubjection by the chiefs, who in\nfact do juft as they pleafe with them, and\nfeem to regard them as an abject fet of\nbeings, over whom they have an unbounded right During our flay at Anamooka,\nimmediately after the market for the day\nwas over, one of the agees ordered the\ncroud to difperfe, and every one to retire\nto his home ; which they not doing fo\nreadily as he thought they ought, he\ncaught up a large flick, and fell upon\nthem moft furioufly. One man was\nknocked down, and when taken away was\nto all appearance dead. The agee took\nno manner of notice of it, and walked\naway as unconcerned as if nothing had\nhappened.\nOn the day our marines were exercifed\non fhore at Happi; Feenow, who was\nI 2 willing\n\\n tlitfi\nwilling to know what execution our mu\u00C2\u00A3\nkets would do at a diftance, defired them\nto fife at a canoe that chanced to be paff-\ning by, and kill the man who was in her.\nThis ftrange requeft was certainly, not\ncomplied with, and we remonftrated with\nhim as well as we could, on the cruelty of\nkilling a man who had committed no\nfault; his anfwer was, that he was only a\nflave and fit for nothing elfe.\nWhilft we lay at Middleburgh, a man\nfitting very unconcerned, and looking on\namidft the croud of people that fur-\nrounded our market-place on fhore, wa&\non a hidden attacked by three or four people armed with clubs, who broke one\nof his thighs, fractured his fkull in a terrible manner, and in fhortdifpatched him.\nThis affair fhocked us a good deal, as it\nhad the appearance of barbarity and cruelty in the higheft degree ; but, upon enquiry, we found that the man had carried^\non an intrigue with the wife of an agee,\nwho, in confequence of difcovering it, had\ncm! I fent\n I < ll7 )\nSent fome of his people with orders to\ndifpatch him wherever they found him.\nThefe people are feldom at war except\nwith the natives of f idgi (an ifland mentioned before), whom they are much\nafraid of, and in general get terribly\nworfted. They told us thefe people\nwere cannibals ; an account which can\nfcarce be credited, confidering the amazing\nfertility of the ifland, which our friends\ntold us abounded with every good thing.\nThis report however was not confined to\na few people, for every one upon being\nafked agreed in the ftory.\nThe weapons ufed at the Friendly Ifles,\nare clubs and fpears : the former made of\nthe cafurina, or toa-tree, which is an\nexceeding hard and heavy wood, and are\nin general curioufly carved j their length is\nfrom three to four feet. The fpears are\nof different lengths, and barbed in various\ndirections with the bones of the fling-\n*ay, which muft render them a moft de-\nftructive weapon. They have likewife\nW , I 3 H ''It bows\n VSMil\nfilfSi]\n. %. ( ,i8 i .:\nbows and arrows, but never ufe them in\nwar, confining them entirely to fhooting\n\ at a mark. T he natives of Fidgi on the\ncontrary, make them a principal weapon,\nand it is to this alone that thefe people\nafcribe their fuperiority; which circum-\nflance one would think might induce\nthem at leaft to try the experiment.\nThe weather, during our flay at Anamooka, was very unfettled, and part of\nthe time it rained very hard ; the winds\nwere variable* At Amfterdam it was in\ngeneral fine, but at Middleburgh we hacj\nmuch rain with frefh gales from the\nN^S, - '\u00E2\u0080\u00A2' : \u00E2\u0080\u00A2-.'-\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 - *\"'~\ - fe\nlllill\nCHAP,\n CHAP. X. j\neave the Friendly Ifles\u00E2\u0080\u0094the Difcovery\ncarries away her main-top-maft in a\nfquall\u00E2\u0080\u0094difcover an ifland\u00E2\u0080\u0094fome of the\nnatives put off\u00E2\u0080\u0094a fcort defcription of\nthem and the ifland\u00E2\u0080\u0094continue our courfe\nio Otaheitee\u00E2\u0080\u0094and anchor in Ohitapeah\nharbour\u00E2\u0080\u0094receive intelligence of the Spaniards having been there\u00E2\u0080\u0094who had ere fled a hoiife anderofs onJhore\u00E2\u0080\u0094leave three\nof their people there > and depart for Lima\u00E2\u0080\u0094they return, and after a Jhort flay\ntake away thofe they had left\u00E2\u0080\u0094and\nagain depart for Lima\u00E2\u0080\u0094Orettet the\nfriend of Mr. Bougainville, vifits us\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nfome account of the place\u00E2\u0080\u0094ihe Moral of\nWftdtuah\u00E2\u0080\u0094ungenerous behaviour of the\nSpaniards refpeeling sis\u00E2\u0080\u0094leave Ohita-\npeahy and arrive at Mat aval bay\u00E2\u0080\u0094Otoo\nvifits the captains.\nN July the 17th at noon, the extremes of Middleburgh bore from\nN. N. E. to S. E. by S. our diftance from\nihe neareft fhore about three miles. On\nI 4 the\n \u00E2\u0096\u00A0f / c5j\nK K;\n( J2\u00C2\u00B0 )\nthe 2cth, the variation of the compafs\nwas \u00C2\u00A7 deg. 5 1 mini eajlerly. From this\ntime to the 28th nothing material occurred ; but on the 29th, at half paft fix\nin the evening, a violent and heavy fquall\ncame on, which carried away the Difco-\nvery's main-top-maft. This reduced them\nto the neceflity-of putting up a jury-maft,\nwhich job was not completed till Auguft\nthe 2d, in the afternoon. Auguft the 7th,\nwe found the variation to be 7 min. eaft-\nerly, and on the 8th, at'half paft eleven\nin the morning, being in latitude 2 3 deg.\n\u00C2\u00A7J S. and longitude 209 deg. 52 min. E.\nwe faw land bearing N. N. E. of which\nthe Difcovery made the fignal to the Refolution. At noon, it was about ten or\ntwelve leagues diftant; but not being\nable to reach it, in any reafonable time, we\nflood upon our tacks for the night. T he\nnext day we flood in for it, and at eight\nfounded fo and got ground from eighteen\nto thirty fathoms, the bottom fine fand,\nabout a quarter of a mile from a break in\nthe reef which furrounded the ifland.\n6 Some\n ( 121\nSome of the natives put off in two\nof their canoes, and came within about\na hundred yards of the fhips ; they made\nmany figns to us, and their language\nfeemed to refemble that of the Society\nIfles. By their figns they feemed to wifh\nus to depart; one of them founded a\nconk fhell, and at the fame time the\nreft brandifhed their paddles, rather in a\nthreatening and menacing manner. We\nendeavoured by every means to perfuade\nthem to come on board, but without ef-\nfea.\nThey were flout well made people, of\nthe dark olive complexion; their hair\nwas black and long, and fome few had it\ntied in a knot upon the top of their heads.\nThree or four had large pearl oyfter-fhell^\nfufpended from their necks by way of ornament. The natives on fhore appeared\nto be numerous, and fome of them were\nclothed in white ; one or two of thofe in\nthe canoes had only a fmall ftrip of cloth\nrQijjijl their waift.\nTheir\n Bill\n( i22 )\nTheir canoes were neat; the gunwale\nwas decorated with white fhells, which\nhad a pretty effect: their paddles were\nlike thofe of the Friendly Ifles, only not\nterminating in a point, but on the contrary quite round.\nThe ifland had a pleafant appearance;\nthe interior parts rofe in moderately high\nhills which were covered with verdure to\nthe top. Along the fhores were borders\nof low land which were well clothed with\ntrees, particularly the coco nut tree.\nOff the weftern fide there was a break\nin the reef apparently wide enough to admit a fhip with fafety. The natives call\nthis ifland Toobooi. At nine we made fail\nand bore away, keeping a N. E. courfe,\nour obferved latitude at noon being 23\ndeg. 9 min. S.\nOn the 13th of Auguft, at half paft five\nin the morning, we faw the ifland Mai-\ntea bearing N. by W. and at feven de-\nfcried Otaheitee, bearing W. by N. 1 N.\nAt noon the extremes of Otaheitee-ete, or\nthe\n ' ( I23\u00C2\u00A7) \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nthe leffer ifland, bore W. | S. and S. W.\nby W. diftant about fix leagues; our\nobferved latitude being ij deg. 44 min.\nS. At fix Ohitapeah harbour bore S. W,,\ndiftant two miles. As we approached the\nland, the winds became light and variable,\nbeing affected by the furrounding mountains, Captain Cook therefore thought it\nmoft advifeable to fland off and on for the\nnight, and take the advantage of the\nmorning to get in. At day light, the\nentrance of Ohitapeah harbour bore S. by\nW. fix or feven miles diftant, and at ten\nwe anchored, in thirty-two fathoms, and\nfoon after moored fhip.\nThe fhips were fcarcely anchored, before numbers of the inhabitants came off\nto us, and prefently recollected fome of\ntheir old acquaintance, at the fight of\nwhom they expreffed great joy and fatif-\nfaction; and it might be fuppofed, that\nthey were equally happy in feeing their\ncountryman Omai returned after fo long\n$ voyage.\u00E2\u0080\u0094-On the contrary, they fcaree\nXQok\n (\n4\nW\ntook any notice of him, and had he not\ndealt out his prefents of red feathers, &c\npretty largely, its poflible they would not\nhave fpoke to him. The next day, after\nfome general enquiries, we found that\nOberea and Wyeatuah (who was king of\nOtaheite-ete, or Tiarraboo, when captain\nCook was laft he re) were dead ; and that\nfome other fhips had been there fome time\nafter the Refolution's departure. This\ninformation of courfe excised our cu-\neuriofity a good deal, and we enquired\nmore particularly into it. They told us,\nthat about the latter end of the year 1774,\nthere arrived two fhips from Remah (by\nwhich we fuppofed they meant Lima),\nthat the people who came in them flaid\nbetween three and four months, and had\nerected a houfe on fhore. During their\nrefidence, the commander, whofe name\nwas Oridde, died, and was buried on fhore\nfome little diftance from the houfe. At\nthe departure of the fhips, they took with\n{hem four of the natives, who voluntarily\nISfe offered\n )\noffered to go, and left behind them a\nyoung man called Martee'mo, and two\npriefls.\nAtthe end of about two months they\nreturned, and brought with then? only\none of the natives; two having died at\nLima, and the other choofing to remain\nthere. They^appeared this fecond time to\nbe in a great hurcy, and after a fhort flay\n(during which time they were employed\nin wooding and watering), took back\nMarteemo and the *two priefls, leaving\nftrict orders with Wyeatuah to take care\nof the houfe, &x. as they intended to return in a fhort time; but however they\nnever made their appearance again.\nThefe were the heads of our information, which, as Omai was our interpreter,\nmight come fomething near the truth.\nThe houfe, which was a wooden one,\nwas divided into two rooms, one behind\nthe other; the windows, or rather'portholes, opened and fhut in the infide with\nAiders. It is likely that the houfe was\nmade\n\w\n ( 126 I\nmade at the place from whence the fhips\ncame, as every plank was numbered. The\nfurniture was very inconfiderable, confining of a table, two or three flools, an\nold tub, an old gold laced hat, and a few\nother trifling articles. At fome diftance,\nin the front of the houfe, upon the fpbt\nwhere the commander was buried, was\nerected a large crofs with this carved in-\nfcription upon it, Chri/lus vincit, Carolus\ntertius imperat. Captain Cook ordered\nit to be taken down, and the following\nwords to be put upon it, Georgius tertius,\nannis 1767, 69, 74, 79.\nMarteemo, as far as we could under-\nfland, was a very fenfible, clever young\nman, and held in much efteem by the na-\nnatives.' It feems probable, that he was left\ntherewith a view of learning the language,\nmanners, and cuftoms of the country ;\nin the former they told us he was very\nintelligent. The two priefls no doubt\nwere to endeavour to make converts, but\nthey did not appear to be very fuccefsful,\nfor\n for we could difcover no traces of the!\ngood effect of their apoftolical miffion;\nand it is not unlikely, but that the reverend fathers might be fo far led aftray\nby the good things of the ifland, and the\ncondefcenfion of its female inhabitants, as\ntotally to forget the bufinefs they were\nfent upon.\nThe man who had been at Lima, was\nfrequently on board the fhips, and very\nreadily anfwered any queflions we put to\nhim relative to his treatment, &c. there.\nHe appeared to like the Spaniards very\nwell, but frequently expreffed his fur prize\nat their not having red feathers (which\nare with thefe people the Jummum bonum\nand extent of all their wifhes) as well as us.\nIn this refpect we were very fortunate,\nhaving laid in a good flock at the Friendly\nIfles. Among many of our dairy vifitors\nwas a man called Orettee, who was an\nold taio of M. Bougainville's : feldom a\nday paffed without this man's dining on\nboard the fhips, where he generally contrived\n ( 128; \u00C2\u00A7\nf\nJrived to get drunk. Of our female vi-\nfitors, a woman whofe narne was Poorahi\nwas the principal; fhe became captfain\nClerke's taio, and exchanged names wi^b\nhim/ She generally had a fine young\ngirl with her, whofe na&fe was Outopah,\nof a moft winning and engaging behaviour.\nAs our flay at this place was not of any\nlong continuance, getting out the Discovery's m aft was poftponed till we fhould\narrive at Matavai Bay, We were however conftantly employed in getting in\nwater, and flatting that which we took in\nat the Friendly Ifles : our armourers too\nwere continually employed at the forge,\nin making trade of various- forts for the\npurchafmg of provifions.\nThe face of the country here exhibits a\nvery different appearance from that of the\nFriendly Ifles. Mountains and vallies,\nhills and dales, and in fhort every thing\nconfpire to form the moft romantic views\nimaginable; while at Amfterdam, &c. you\nM had\n had only one continued tract of low level\nland. At a little diftance from the fhips was\na remarkably pleafant valley, which ran\nwinding between the mountains to a great\ndiftance ; in the midft of it is a fine ftream.\nof water, which at the head of the valley\ntakes its rife from a beautiful cafcade\nthat appears to burft out of the rocks.\nOn each fide the ftream are placed the\nhoufes of the natives, interfperfed with\nplantations of bananas, coco nuts, breadfruit, and aifcind of apple-tree : the lofty\nhills on each fide, whofe tops reach beyond the clouds, the variety of birds\nwhich are continually flying from place to\nplace, and the noife of the falling water,\nre-echoed by the furrounding hills, afford\na fcene linking beyond defcription.\nOhitapeah is the principal place of Ota-\nheitee-ete, being the refidence of the king\nand moft of the principal people. The\n.grefent king is a minor, and fon to the.\nlate Wyeatuah ; he is about ten years old,\nand is a fine lively fenfible boy.\nVol.1. W f '\"IB* \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 The\n I\n( *3\u00C2\u00B0 ) \\nThe morai of the late king ftands upon the banks of a rivulet not far from the\nSpafaifh houfe ; it is- very neatly fenced\nin with bamboo, and the cbrpfeis placed\nupon a kind of bier, and wrapped up in*\na great quantity of cloth, over which are\nfpread feveral pieces of fcarfet woollet*\ncloth, which had been given him by the\n^Spaniards. His houfe is at a little diftance*\nfrom the morai, but almoft tumbled to*\npieces; for thefe people never repair or live\nin the houfe of any one that iatiead ; that\nand every thing belonging to it being raaj\nas they call it; which word has nearly the\nfame meaning as taboo at the Friendly\nIfles, and means unlawful or forbid.. This\nword is ufed on many occafions ; fdr in-\nflance, if you afk any of the women to eat\nwhile tfie men are pcefent, they will fhake\ntheir heads, and fay it is maa raa, or meat\nwhich they are forbid to eat.\nThefe good people, notwithftanding;\nthey fupplied us very largely with every\nproduce of the place, yet in feveral re-\nm~ ^ v '' '-\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\" ;-%ect^\n WElUfdei\nJ.C&Uyerjtttlp.\nPublifb 6d Decf 14* 1781,% G.Robiniim.\n I\n fpects had loft -that degree of cordiality\nfor US) which was experienced in the\ncourfe of the former voyage. This we had\ngreat reafon to attribute to the infinuations\nand mal-practices of the Spaniards, who\n(if the natives are to be relied on) took\nevery,method to leffen that friendfhip and\ngood opinion, which they faw thefe people entertained of us, by reprefenting us\nas a fet-of idle, piratical people, who lived\nentirely by plunder ;jrthat we had no\nplace of abode, but were obliged to cruize\nabout from place to place to procure a\nliving, with many other circumflances\nsgqpally falfe andiunjuft.\nThe behaviour of the Spaniards during\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2tbeir flay was truly characteriftic ; fcarce\n:any of the natives were permitted to en-\nker the great cabin, and not a woman was\ndiffered to come on board; the co$a-\ninander never went on fhore, without a\nguard to mceme him, wiuch withathe adr\nvantage they had oyer us in fine fi^rlet\ncloths (for the people oijQtaheitee, lifee\nK a moft\n 'it i- \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 l r32 i \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nmoft others, are fond of fhew), and the\n_great ftate they always affumed, abfo-\nlutely got the better of our popr friends,\nand they looked upon them almoft as a\nfuperior race of beings.\nHowever, we in fome meafure overcame their prejudices againff us, and by\ndealing out our prefents (particularly red\nfeathers) in a judicious manner, they\nreadily confeffed we were more valuable\ntaios than the Dons. Vjj^\nThe Spaniards left behind feveral hogs,\ngoats, and dogs, and likewi.% a bull and\ncow : the latter died, but the bull was.\nkept at Oparre, the refidenGe of Otoo, and\nwas really a fine animal.\nWeilaid at this place till the 23d in-\nflant, when we weighed our anchors,\nand flood out of the harbour, at nine in\nthe morning, with feveral of the natives\non board as paffengers.tif\nAt noon the N. W. point of Otaheitee\nbore N. W. by N. diftant about three\nleagues, and the eafterrnoft land in fight\nS. E^\n S. E. | S. The Refolution, being a good\nway a-head, got into Matavia Bay before\nit was dark; but night coming on, and\nhaving very fqually weather, the Difcovery\nflood off and on, it being more prudent\nto take the advantage of the meaning to\nget in, rather than run the rifque of, getting too near the reef, which might have\nproved a dangerous affair. The next\nday, as foon as it became light, fhe flood\nin for the bay, and at eleven let go her\nanchor in five fathom of water, a fandy\nbottom, about half a mile from the neareft\nihore.\nWe now fet about the neceffary preparations for getting out the Difcovery s\nmail: and as captain Cook intended to\nrefide here fome time, the ailronomers\ntents, inftruments, and other apparatus,\nwere got on fhore, and erected upon point\nVenus. The fhips tents were alfo pitch-\ned, and the marines, with the coopers,\nand all the empty cafks, with various\nother affairs, were fent on fhore.\nK 3 Ihe\n \\n\\nI '.'I *34 | ^ ;\u00C2\u00A7\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'\n-r The next day, Otoo, wiA his brothers\nand fiflers, vifited the, captains. He is\nlull fix feet high, and raw-bdned, but not\niat Enue, who is his fecond brofiber,4l\na fine handfome young fellow, but greatly addicted to drinking awa; the young-\neft is about feventeen, a Sandfome youth.\nHis three fillers are very plain women ;\nthe young eft, whofe name is Terrara, is\na very agreeable lively girl.\nCHAI .\n i '35 t\n*'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 'CHAP. ' XL ' ' ;\u00C2\u00A7r'\n^maifinds hisfifier married\u00E2\u0080\u0094her hufband's\nbehaviour\u00E2\u0080\u0094he is led into temptation, and\nturned out ofthejhip\u00E2\u0080\u0094the natives very ingenious at fabricatingftories\u00E2\u0080\u0094an inflance\nof it\u00E2\u0080\u0094the people of Otaheitee engaged in\na war with thofe of Imaio\u00E2\u0080\u0094the caufe of\nthat war\u00E2\u0080\u0094a human facrifice is offered to\nthe god of war by Tohaw\u00E2\u0080\u0094fme der\nfcription of the place of facrifice\u00E2\u0080\u0094Tohaw\nand his friends Potatow and Tapaow%\nfail for Imaio \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Otoos behaviour \u00E2\u0080\u0094 is\n.threatened by Tohaw\u00E2\u0080\u0094we fail for Imaio\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094the natives fieal two of our goats\u00E2\u0080\u0094?\narrival at Huaheine\u00E2\u0080\u0094lofe one of our qua\ndrants \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the thief taken \u00E2\u0080\u0094 threatens\ntOmai, and is again confined\u00E2\u0080\u0094but makes\nhis efcape\u00E2\u0080\u0094arrival at Vriatea\u00E2\u0080\u0094two of our\npeople leave the flips\u00E2\u0080\u0094are at length taken\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094leave Uriatea, andfleer for Bora-bora\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094-fome account of thefociety of Arreois.\n/KMAI found his After married and\n\^Jr fettled here, who received him very\ncordially and affectionately, but her huf-\nbandj who was quite of the inferior fet of\nK 4 . ' people,\n ( 136 ) \\npeople, would not condefcend or deign to\nfpeak to him. But he foon altered his behaviour, for finding that Omai was pof-\nfefled of many valuables, he then received\nhim with open arms, and was continually\nwith him, both on board and on fhore.\nAn unlucky circumftance however happened, for being one day on board the\nRefolution in the great cabin, juft before\ndinner, a knife and fork attracted his notice fo much as to induce him to conceal\nthem. It was foon difcovered that the ufual\nnumber was not there, and the Captain's\nfufpicion immediately refting upon him,\nhe was fearched\and the things found,\nfor which he got a good flogging, and was\nturned out of the fhip. Captain Cook\nwifhed much to have fettled Omai at this\nplace, and put him under the protection of\nOtoo ; but he never would hear of it, and\ndeclared that he would remain no where\nbut at Huaheine. His reafon for fixing\nupon this ifland in particular was, be-\noaufe its fituation he faid was very convenient for him, to chaftife the infolence\nSi: . .. .;-.-oi ^. .:;\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ./\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 of\n ( 137 ) I\nof the Bora-bora men, for whom he has,\nthe moft inveterate hatred.\nOmai had been very lavifh of his things\nat Ohitapeah, and he alfo diftributed them\nhere in a manner that a good deal dif-\npleafed Captain Cook, who often advifed\nhim to be more frugal, but without effect.\nThe people at this place did not appear\nmuch to like him, and frequently turned\nup their nofes at him as he paffed\nalong: but at length Tohaw (the lorcf\nhigh admiral, as we ufed to call him), who\nwas a man of a fine generous fpirit, took\na great deal of notice of him, gave him\ntwo or three fervants, and was very de-\nfirous of his living with him, but Omai\nwould not liften to reafon.\nWe were nowconftantly vifited by many\nof the principal arees, among whom were\nOammo (hufband to the late queen Obe-\nrea), Potatow, and Tohaw.\nOn the 27th inftant, fome people from\nOhitapeah came on board the Difcovery,\nand informed the Captain that two Spa-\nnifh\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0IwF\n -.. Cf'38\nsiifh fhips had arrived at that place on\nthe preceding evening. He immediately\nwaited upon Captain Cook, and related\nthe information he had .received : whilft\nthey were difcourfing of the affair, one of\nthe Indians introduced himfelf, and faid\nhe had actually been on board one of the\nthips, and that the clothing which he then\n*had on, was given him by one of the\ncommanders. It appeared to be perfectly new, which, with the many proteftar\nlions and affurances the man made reflecting the truth of the report, induced\nCaptain Cook to fend a boat, with an officer, attended by this genius, who voluntarily offered to conduct them, to afcer-\ntain the truth : in the interim both veffek\nIgere cleared for action, in cafe the Dons\nfhould think proper to attack us. jOn the\nevening of the 29th the boat returned,\nhaving looked into Ohitapeah harbour,\n-where there was not the leaft appearance\nof a fhip, confequently the whole was\nnothing more than a ftory which thefe\ningenious\n ( *39 )\ningenious people had contrived to hatch\nup. Indeed their conductor was fo fen^\nfible of this, that betook the firft oppor*\ntunity of making his efcape by jumping\nOverboard, and by that means, in all\nprobability, efcaped a good kicking.\nWe found our friends engaged in a\nwar with a neighbouring ifland called\nImaio, or York Ifland, which, as far as\nwe could team, appeared to be an old affair. When Captain Cook was at Ota>\niaieitee in the courfe of his laft voyage,\nthey were preparing a very formidable\nfleet to attack that ifland, which formerly\nwas tributary to Otaheitee, but revolted\nfome years fince. Soon after the departure of the Refolution they failed, and\nupon landing their forces a brifk engage-\nment enfued, and our friends entirely\nrouted them, and obliged them to fly to\nthe mountains. They foon after fhed\nfor peace, and very gladly accepted of it\nupon any terms ;|when it was agreed\nthat one of Tohaw's family fhould refider\nere\n ( Ho 1\nthere as governor. This they readily\naffented to, and for fome time appeared\nperfectly fatisfied ; but it did not continue long, for by degrees they began to\ndifpftte the authority of their new governor, and at laft difpatched him. This\nwas the caufe of the prefent war ; and in\nconfequence of it, on the evening of the\nJ ft of September, \"lb-haw offered a human\nfacrifice to their god of war, whom they\ncall Oro. Thefe kinds of religious rites\nwe find are cuftomary things amorigfl:\nthem upon any particular occafion. The\nperfon facrificed is always one of the low-\neft and moft ufelefs perfon they can find:\nhe is totally ignorant of the affair, till the\nperfons who are fent to difpatch him arrive, when they knock him on the head\nwithout any hefftation. The body is\nthen conveyed to the place of facrihce:\nwith great form and ceremony. This\nplace feems to bevfet apart entirely for\nreligious affairs of this nature! on one\nfide was a houfe for the refidence of the\n**\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2' .\u00C2\u00A7: , ' . priefts*\n priefls, at fome diftance from which wks\na large piece of board elevated upon two\npolls rudely carved, upon which were\nplaced feveral hogs and dogs that probably were killed upon this occafion^Near\nthis was a kind of flat fhed raifed upon\nfour polls, and decorated all round near\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2the top with garlands made of particular\nkfnd of trees, fuch as the emotoo, awa,\nand etee, and upon its top feveral bunches\nof plantains and coco nuts were placed;\nOn one fide was a kind of altar formed\nof ftone, and raifed about two feet from\nthe furface of the ground, upon various\nparts of which were fixed thofe rude\nkinds of carvings that are ufually to be\ndiflinguifhed near moraii, and in the midft\nof thefe were a number of human fkulls,\nwhich belonged to thofe who had formerly\nbeen facrificed. Near the houfe were\ntwo large drums, upon which two men\nwere almoft continually drumming during\nthe ceremony. The prieft takes out one\nof the eyes, which he offers to the god, at\nthe fame time making a long prayer,\nploring\nfin\n \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0' '\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 '\nII'\nmm\\n( H* ' ) ; %\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nploring his protectidn during the war*\nand begging that victory may crown their\narms, after which the body is interned.\nAs it was Tohaw's relation whom the\njjeople of imak) had murdered, he of\ncourfe was the moft active man, and had\nmade great preparations ; Otoo, Potatow,\nand another chief whofe name was Ta-\npaow, were aHb to affift him. On the\n19th, the two latter, with Tohaw, failed\nfor Imaio, whilft OfcQp was to mufter hb\nforces and join him the next day. Ao\ncordingly there was a review of his war\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2canoes ; after which, inftead of going to\nthe affiflance of Tohaw, as was expected,\nthey all departed to the feveral diflridts to\nwhich they belong; the confequence of\nwhich was, the admiral and his friends\nwere very roughly handled, and obliged to make off in the beft manner they\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2could,\nThis behaviour of Otoo enraged old\nTohaw exceedingly, who declared vengeance againft him, and even threatened\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2to dethrone him, which he faid it was no\nvery\npa\n vety difficult fe&tt# to{eom!f*afs, as WyeV\natuah, the young kSxg of Tiarrabbo,\nis his nephew; arid their combined forced\nniigjit eaffily give him a