CHAP. IV. The Range from Botany Bay to Trinity Bay; with a farther Account of the Country, its Inhabitants and Productions. 300 CHAP. V. Dangerous Situation of the Ship in her Course from Trinity Bay to Endeavour River. CHAP. VI. 331 Tranfactions while the Ship was refitting in Endeavour River: a Defcription of the adjacent Country, its Inbabitants, and Productions. CHAP. VII. 342 Departure from Endeavour River; a particular Defcription of the Harbour there, in which the Ship was refitted, the adjacent Country, and several Islands near the Coaft: the Range from Endeavour River to the Northern Extremity of the Country, and the Dangers of that Naviga tion. CHA P. VIII. 368 Departure from New South Wales. A particular Defcription of the Country, its Products, and People. A Specimen of the Language; and fome Obfervations upon the Currents and Tides. 396 CHA P. IX. The Paffage from New South Wales to New Guinea; with an Account of what happened upon landing there. 418 CHAP. A particular Defcription of the Island of Savu; its Pro- The Run from the Ifland of Savu to Batavia, and an Ac- Same Account of the Inhabitants of Batavia, and the ad- Our Arrival at the Cape of Good Hope; fome Remarks on the Run from Java Head to that Place; a Defcription of the Cape, and of Saint Helena; with fome Account ΑΝ ΑΝ ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE round the WORLD. CHA P. I. The Ceremonies of an Indian Funeral particularly defcribed: General Obfervations on the Subject: A Character found among the Indians, to which the Ancients paid great Veneration: A Robbery at the Fort, and its Confequences; with a Specimen of Indian Cookery, and various Incidents. Ο Monday 5. N the 5th we kept his Majesty's birth-day; June 1769. for though it is the 4th, we were unwilling to celebrate it during the absence of the two parties who had been sent out to observe the Tranfit. We had feveral of the Indian Chiefs at our entertainment, who drank his Majesty's health by the name of Kihiargo, which was the nearest imitation they could produce of King George. About this time died an old woman of fome rank, who was related to Tomio, which gave us an opportunity to see how they difpofed of the body, and confirmed us in our opinion that these people, contrary to the prefent custom of all other nations now known, never bury their dead. In the middle of a small fquare, neatly railed in with bamboo, the awning of a canoe was raised upon two pofts, and under this the VOL. II. B body |