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1769. which it was made. The cloth was of the fame Auguft. materials as that which is worn in the other Monday 14 iflands, and most of that which was seen by our people was dyed of a bright but deep yellow, and covered on the outfide with a compofition like varnish, which was eitheir red, or of a darklead-colour; over this ground it was again painted in ftripes of many different patterns, with wonderful regularity, in the manner of our ftriped filks in England; the cloth that was painted red was ftriped with black, and that which was painted lead-colour with white. Their habit was a fhort jacket of this cloth, which reached about as low as their knees; it was of one piece, and had no other making than a hole in the middle of it, ftitched round with long ftitches, in which it differed from all that we had seen before: through this hole the head was put, and what hung down was confined to their bodies by a piece of yellow cloth or fash, which paffing round the neck behind, was croffed upon the breast, and then collected round the waist like a belt, which paffed over another belt of red cloth, fo that they made a very gay and warlike appearance; fome had caps of the feathers of the tropic bird, which have been be fore described, and some had a piece of white or lead-coloured cloth wound about the head like a fmall turban, which our people thought more becoming.

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Etoa, the wood of which is very hard; they were well polished and sharpened at one end: fome Monday 147 were near twenty feet long, though not more

than three fingers thick: they had also a weapon' which was both club and pike, made of the fame wood, about feven feet long; this also was well polifhed, and fharpened at one end into a broad point. As a guard against thefe weapons, when they attack each other, they have matts foldedup many times, which they place under their clothes from the neck to the waift: the weapons themselves indeed are capable of much lefs mifchief than thofe of the fame kind which we faw at the other iflands, for the lances were there* pointed with the sharp bone of the ftingray that is called the fting, and the pikes were of much greater weight. The other things that we faw here were all fuperior in their kind to any we had feen before; the cloth was of a better colour in the dye, and painted with greater neatness and tafte; the clubs were better cut and polished, and the canoe, though a fmall one, was very rich in ornament, and the carving was executed in a better manner: among other decorations pecular to this canoe, was a line of fmall white" feathers, which hung from the head and ftern on the outfide, and which, when we faw them, were thoroughly wetted by the spray.

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Tupia told us, that there were several islands lying at different diftances, and in different diMonday 14. rections from this, between the fouth and the north weft; and that at the distance of three days fail to the north east, there was an island called MANUA, Bird ifland: he seemed, however, most defirous that we fhould fail to the weftward, and defcribed feveral islands in that direction which he faid he had vifited: he told us that he had been ten or twelve days in going thither, and thirty in coming back, and that the Pabie in which he had made the voyage, failed much fafter than the fhip: reckoning his Pahie therefore to go at the rate of forty leagues a day, which from my own observation I have great reason to think these boats will do, it would make four hundred leagues in ten days, which I compute to be the distance of Boscawen and Keppel's Inlands, discovered by Captain Wallis, weftward of Ulietea, and therefore think it very probable that they were the islands he had vifited. The fartheft island that he knew any thing of to the fouthward, he said, lay at the diftance of about two days fail from Oteroah, and was called MOUTOU; but he faid that his father had told him there were islands to the fouthward of that upon the whole, I was determined to stand fouthward in fearch of a continent, but to spend not time in fearching for iflands, if we did not happen to fall in with them during our course.

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Voyage round the World.

BOOK II.

CHAP. I.

The Paffage from Oteroah to New Zealand';
Incidents which happened on going a-fhore
there, and while the Ship lay in Poverty
Bay.

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Tuesday 15.

E failed from Oteroah on the 15th of August, and on Friday the 25th we celebrated the anniversary of our leaving England, Friday 25. by taking a Cheshire cheese from a locker, where it had been carefully treasured up for this occafion, and tapping a cask of porter, which proved to be very good, and in excellent order, On the 29th, one of the failors got fo drunk, Tuesday 29. that the next morning he died: we thought at

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firft that he could not have come honeftly by the liquor, but we afterwards learnt that the Tuesday 29. boatswain, whose mate he was, had in mere good-nature given him part of a bottle of

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On the 30th we saw the comet; at one o'clock in the morning it was a little above the horizon in the eastern part of the heavens; at about half an hour after four it paffed the meridian, and its tail fubtended an angle of forty-two degrees. Our latitude was 38° 20′ S., our longitude, by log, 147o 6′ W., and the variation of the needle, by the azimuth, 7° 9′ E. Among others that obferved the comet, was Tupia, who inftantly cried out, that as foon as it fhould be feen by the people of Bolabola, they would kill the inhabitants of Ulietea, who would with the utmoft precipitation fly to the mountains.

On the ift of September, being in the latitude of 40° 22′ S. and longitude 147° 29′ W., and there not being any signs of land, with a heavy fea from the weftward, and ftrong gales, I wore, and stood back to the northward, fearing that we might receive such damage in our fails and rigging, as would hinder the prosecution of the voyage.

On the next day, there being strong gales to the weftward, I brought to, with the ship's head to the northward; but in the morning of the 3d, the wind being more moderate, we loosened

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