landed he was quite lifeless, and extremely dejected; but he no sooner entered the town than he seemed to be animated with a new soul. The houses, carriages, streets, people, and multiplicity of other objects, all new, which rushed upon him at once, produced an effect like the sudden and secret power that is imagined of fascination. The Otaheitean boy, his attendant, expressed his wonder and delight in the most extravagant manner; he danced along the street in a kind of ecstacy, examining every object with a restless and eager curiosity. One of the first things which Tupia remarked was, the various dresses of the passing multitude, concerning which he made many inquiries; and when he was told, that in this place, where people of many different nations were assembled, every one wore the habit of his own country, he desired that he might conform to the custom, and appear in that of Otaheite. He had not been above a week on shore, before the baneful influence of the climate had operated powerfully on his shattered constitution. After the flow of spirits which the novelties of the place produced, upon his first landing, had subsided, he sunk on a sudden, and grew every day worse and worse: Tayeto too was seized with an inflammation on his lungs. A tent was pitched for him on the least baneful spot of this pestiferous island, where both the sea and land breezes blew directly upon him, and he expressed great satisfaction in his situation. Mr. Banks, although in a very broken state of health, attended on him with the utmost solicitude. In about ten days afterwards the poor Indian boy Tayeto died; and Tupia sunk at once with the loss of him, and survived him only a day or two, for he loved him with the tenderness of a parent. They

had both made great progress in the English language, in which they were greatly assisted by Mr. Green, the astronomer. When Tayeto was seized with the fatal disorder, as if certain of his approaching dissolution, he frequently said to those about him, tyau mate oee, "my friends, I am dying.” He took any medicines that were offered him; but Tupia gave himself up to grief, regretting with extreme bitterness of heart, that he had left his own country. When he heard of Tayeto's death, he was quite inconsolable, frequently crying out, Tayeto, Tayeto! They were both buried in the island of Eadam. Such was the much to be regretted end of this intelligent and friendly Indian.

By the end of November the number of sick on board amounted to forty; and the rest of the ship's company were in a very feeble condition. Every individual had been sick, except the sail-maker, an old man between seventy and eighty years of age; and it is remarkable, that he was constantly drunk every day during his stay at this place. The life of Mr. Banks was despaired of for some time.

On the 26th of December the ship sailed out, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope on the 7th of March, 1771, and continued there until the 13th of April. In the course of about six weeks, in passing from Batavia to the Cape, the mortality on board the ship was very great; almost every night a dead body was committed to the sea. Among those who died were Mr. Spering, a gentleman who was in Mr. Banks's retinue; Mr. Parkinson, his natural-history painter; Mr. Green, the astronomer; the boatswain; the carpenter and his mate; Mr. Monkhouse, the midshipman, who had fothered the ship after she had been stranded on the coast of

New Holland; the old jolly sail-maker, and his assistant; the ship's cook; the corporal of marines; two of the carpenter's crew; another midshipman, and nine seamen; in all twenty-three persons, besides seven who had been buried at Batavia. On the 1st of May Mr. Cook arrived at St. Helena, and continued there three days. On the 23d, the first lieutenant, Mr. Hicks, died of a consumption, of which he was not free when the ship left England. Mr. Cook gave Mr. Charles Clerke, a young man, of whom we shall have much to say hereafter, an order to act as lieutenant in his room, passing over Mr. Gore, the second lieutenant.

The rigging and sails were now become so bad, that something was giving way every day; they continued their course, however, without any unfavourable occurrence, until the 10th of June, when the Lizard was seen; and on the 12th the ship came to an anchor in the Downs.

Never did the abilities and undaunted fortitude of a navigator appear so conspicuously as in this long, dangerous, and successful voyage; from which every possible advantage was derived to science, by the unwearied researches of the gentlemen who had embarked for the purpose of taking the most extensive survey of nature. The discoveries made in this voyage have awakened the curiosity of mankind, and excited a general disposition to become acquainted with every part of the globe, and with the whole system of nature. Nor ought the advantages which have been derived from thence to navigation, to be passed over in silence. Mr. Green, whom death deprived of the reward which awaited his labours, whilst traversing the great Pacific Ocean, was indefatigable both in making observa

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tions and calculating upon them; and by his instructions and assistance, many of the petty officers were enabled both to observe and calculate with great exactness. This method of finding the longitude at sea may be put into universal practice, and may always be depended upon within half a degree, which is sufficient for all nautical purposes. If therefore observing and calculating were considered as necessary qualifications for every sea officer, the labours of the speculative theorist to solve this problem, might be remitted without much injury to mankind.

SECOND VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD,

BY CAPTAIN JAMES COOK,

IN THE RESOLUTION, ACCOMPANIED BY THE ADVENTURE, CAPTAIN FURNEAUX,

TO DISCOVER A SOUTHERN CONTINENT.

CHAP. I.

Object of the voyage. Occurrences in the first attempt, from their departure from the Cape of Good Hope until the arrival of captain Cook at New Zealand.

THE uncommon abilities which captain Cook had displayed in conducting his important voyage of discovery, caused him to be soon appointed to undertake another voyage, under the same royal auspice which had given birth to the former expedition, the chief design of which was, to determine with precision whether a southern continent did exist. Captain Cook had already exploded the theoretic opinion, that New Zealand was a part of that continent he had done more; by proceeding further to the southward, he ascertained, that no land of any considerable extent existed in that direction, from the great swell of the sea; for, when a vast expanse of water has neither land nor ice to check its activity, and poise its motions, the undulation of the waves is peculiarly strong. The design therefore of this voyage was, to determine how far it