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July.

Tuesday 21.

with nettles while he ran the gauntlet thrice round the deck my rhetoric, however, had very little effect, for most of the crew being equally criminal with himself, he was handled so tenderly, that others were rather encouraged to repeat the offence by the hope of impunity, than deterred by the fear of punishment. To preferve the fhip therefore, from being pulled to pieces, and the price of refreshments from being raifed fo high as foon to exhaust our articles of trade, I ordered that no man, except the wooders and waterers, with their guard, should be permitted to go on fhore.

On the 21ft, the Queen came again on board, and brought several large hogs as a prefent, for which, as ufual, fhe would accept of no return. When the was about to leave the fhip, the expreffed a defire that I should go on fhore with her, to which I confented, taking several of the officers with me. When we arrived at her house, she made us all fit down, and taking off my hat, fhe tied to it a bunch or tuft of feathers of various colours, fuch as I had feen no perfon on shore wear but herself, which produced by no means a difagreeable effect. She alfo tied round my hat, and the hats of those who were with me, wreaths of braided or plaited hair, and gave us to understand that both the hair and workmanship were her own: fhe alfo prefented us with fome matts, that were very curiously wrought. In the evening fhe accompanied us back to the beach, and when we were getting into the boat, she put on board a fine large fow, big with young, and a great quantity of fruit. As we were parting, I made figns that I fhould quit the island in feven days: fhe immediately comprehended my meaning, and made figns that I should stay twenty days; that I fhould go two days journey into the country, stay there a few days, bring down plenty of hogs and poultry, and after that leave the island. I again made figns that I must go in feven days; upon which the burst into tears, and it was not without great difficulty that he was pacified.

Wednes. 22.

The next morning, the Gunner fent off no lefs than twenty hogs, with great plenty of fruit: Our decks were now quite full of hogs and poultry, of which

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we killed only the small ones, and kept the others for sea stores; we found, however, to our great mortification, that neither the fowls nor the hogs could, without great difficulty, be brought to eat any thing but fruit, which made it neceffary to kill them fafter than we should otherwise have done; two, however, a boar and a fow, were brought alive to England, of which I made a present to Mr. Stephens, Secretary to the Admiralty; the fow afterwards died in pigging, but the boar is ftill alive.

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July.

On the 23d, we had very heavy rain, with a ftorm Thurf. 23. of wind that blew down feveral trees on fhore, though very little of it was felt where the fhip lay.

The next day, I fent the old man, who had been of Friday 24. great service to the Gunner at the market-tent, another iron pot, fome hatchets and bills, and a piece of cloth. I also fent the Queen two turkies, two geefe, three Guinea hens, a cat big with kitten, fome china, lookingglaffes, glafs bottles, fhirts, needles, thread, cloth, ribbands, peas, fome small white kidney-beans, called callivances, and about fixteen different forts of garden feeds, and a fhovel, befides a confiderable quantity of cutlery wares, confifting of knives, fciffars, bill-hooks, and other things. We had already planted several forts of the garden feeds, and fome peas in feveral places, and had the pleasure to fee them come up in a very flourishing state, yet there were no remains of them when Captain Cook left the island. I fent her alfo two iron pots, and a few spoons. In return for these things, the Gunner brought off eighteen hogs, and fome fruit.

In the morning of the 25th, I ordered Mr. Gore, Saturd. 25. one of the mates, with all the marines, forty feamen, and four midshipmen, to go up the valley by the river as high as they could, and examine the foil and produce of the country, noting the trees and plants which they should find, and when they faw any ftream from the mountains, to trace it to its fource, and obferve whether it was tinctured with any mineral or ore. I cautioned them alfo to keep continually upon their guard against the natives, and directed them to make a fire, as a fignal, if they fhould be attacked. At the fame time, I took a guard on fhore, and erected a tent

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on a point of land, to obferve an eclipse of the fun, which, the morning, being very clear, was done with great accuracy.

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9 ΙΟ The latitude of the point, on which the observation was made, was 17° 30' S. the fun's declination was 19o 40' N. and the variation of the needle 5° 36′ E.

After the obfervation was taken, I went to the Queen's house, and fhewed her the telescope, which was a reflector. After she had admired its ftructure, I endeavoured to make her comprehend its ufe, and fixing it fo as to command several diftant objects, with which fhe was well acquainted, but which could not be diftinguished with the naked eye, I made her look through it. As foon as the faw them, she started back with aftonishment, and directing her eye as the glass was pointed, ftood fome time motionlefs and filent; fhe then looked through the glass again, and again fought, in vain, with the naked eye, for the objects which it discovered. As they by turns vanished and re-appeared, her countenance and geftures expreffed a mixture of wonder and delight which no language can describe. When the glass was removed, I invited her, and feveral of the Chiefs that were with her, to go with me on board the ship, in which I had a view to the fecurity of the party that I had fent out; for I thought that while the Queen, and the principal people were known to be in my power, nothing would be attempted against any perfon belonging to the ship on fhore. When we got on board, I ordered a good dinner for their entertainment, but the Queen would neither eat nor drink; the people that were with her eat very heartily of whatever was fet before them, but would drink only plain

water.

In the evening our people returned from their excurfion, and came down to the beach, upon which I put the Queen and her attendants into the boats, and fent them on fhore. As fhe was going over the ship's fide,

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she asked, by figns, whether I ftill perfifted in my refolution of leaving the island at the time I had fixed; and when I made her understand that it was impoffible I should stay longer, the expressed her regret by a flood of tears, which for a while took away her fpeech. As foon as her paffion fubfided, fhe told me that she would come on board again the next day: and thus we parted.

CHA P. VII.

An Account of an Expedition to discover the inland Part of the Country, and our other Transactions, till we quitted the land to continue our Voyage.

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FTER the mate came on board, he gave me a written account of his expedition to the following effect:

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July.

"At four o'clock in the morning, of Saturday the Saturd. 25 25th of June, I landed, with four midshipmen, a ferjeant, and twelve marines, and twenty-four feamen, all armed, befides four who carried hatchets and other articles of traffic, and four who were loaded with ammunition and provifions, the rest being left with the boat every man had his day's allowance of brandy, and the hatchet men two small kegs, to give out when I fhould think proper.

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"As foon as I got on fhore, I called upon our old man, and took him with us: we then followed the course of the river in two parties, one marching on each fide. For the first two miles it flowed through a valley of confiderable width, in which were many habitations, with gardens walled in, and abundance of hogs, poultry, and fruit; the foil here feemed to be a rich fat earth, and was of a blackish colour. this the valley became very narrow, and the ground rifing abruptly on one fide of the river, we were all obliged to march on the other. Where the stream was precipitated from the hils, channels had been cut to lead the water into gardens and plantations of fruit trees in thefe gardens we found an herb which had never been brought down to the water-fide, and which we perceived the inhabitants eat raw. I tafted it, and

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found it pleasant, its flavour fomewhat resembling that of the West Indian fpinnage, called Calleloor, though its leaf was very different. The ground was fenced off fo as to make a very pretty appearance; the bread-fruit and apple-trees were planted in rows on the declivity of the hills, and the cocoa-nut and plaintain, which require more moisture on the level ground: under the trees, both on the fides and at the foot of the hills, there was very good grafs, but no underwood. As we advanced, the hills on each fide fwelled into mountains, and vaft craggs every where projected over our heads. Travelling now became difficult, and when we had proceeded about four miles, the road for the last mile having been very bad, we fat down to reft ourselves, and take the refreshment of our breakfaft; we ranged ourfelves upon the ground under a large apple-tree, in a very pleasant spot; but just as we were about to begin our repaft, we were fuddenly alarmed by a confused found of many voices, and a great shouting, and prefently afterwards faw a multitude of men, women, and children, upon the hill above us; our old man feeing us rise haftily, and look to our arms, beckoned to us to fit ftill, and immediately went up to the people that had furprised us. As foon as he joined them they were filent, and foon after disappeared; in a short time, however, they returned, and brought with them a large hog ready roafted, with plenty of bread-fruit, yams, and other refreshments, which they gave to the old man, who diftributed them among our people. In return for this treat, I gave them fome nails, buttons, and other things, with which they were greatly delighted. After this we proceeded up the valley as far as we could, fearching all the runs of water, and all the places where water had run, for appearances of metal or ore, but could find none, except what I have brought back with me. I fhewed all the people that we met with, the piece of faltpetre which had been picked up in the ifland, and which I had taken with me for that purpose, but none of them took any notice of it, nor could I learn from them any thing about it. The old man began now to be weary, and there being a mountain before us, he made figns that he would go home: before he left us, however, he made the people who had

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