its Banks, and the fine Timber that grows there: Several Inter-

views with the Natives on different Parts of the Coaft, and a

Skirmish with them upon an Island.

CHAP. V.

349

Range from the Bay of Islands round North Cape to Queen Charlotte's

Sound; and a Defcription of that Part of the Coaft.

CHAP. VI.

371

Tranfactions in Queen Charlotte's Sound: Paffage through the

Streight which divides the two Islands, and back to Cape Turn-

again: Horrid Cuftom of the Inhabitants: Remarkable Melody of

Birds: A Vifit to a Heppah, and many other Particulars. 385.

ΑΝ

AN

ACCOUNT

OF A

VOYAGE round the WORLD,

IN THE YEARS

MDCCLXVIII, MDCCLXIX, MDCCLXX, and MDCCLXXI.

By LIEUTENANT JAMES COOK,
Commander of his Majefty's Bark the ENDEAVOUR

INTRODUCTION.

I

Have in the General Introduction to this work mea

tioned the reafons why the Narratives of the feveral Voyages are written in the perfon of the Commanders, upon what ground liberty has been taken to introduce fuch fentiments as the events fuggefted to me, and what the materials were from which my work has been drawn up. It has also been said, that with respect to the Voyage of the Endeavour, I had ftill farther affiftance, and of this I am now to give an account.

On board this veffel embarked Joseph Banks Esquire, a Gentleman poffeffed of confiderable landed property in Lincolnshire. He received the education of a fcholar rather to qualify him for the enjoyments than the labours of life; yet an ardent defire to know more of Nature than could be learnt from books, determined him, at a very early age, to forego what are generally thought to be the principal advantages of a liberal fortune, and to apply his revenue not in procuring the pleasures of leifure and ease, but in the purfuit of his favourite study, through a series of fatigue and danger, which, in fuch circumftances, have very feldom been voluntarily incurred,