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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 passed over another belt of red cloth, fo that they made a very gay and warlike appearance. Some had caps of the feathers of the tropic bird, which have been before defcribed, and fome had a piece of white or lead coloured cloth wound about the head, like a fmall turban, which our people thought more becoming.

Their arms were long lances, made of the Etoa, the wood of which is very hard; they were well polished and sharpened at one end; fome 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 polished, and fharpened at one end into a broad point. As a guard against these weapons, when they attack each other, they have mats folded up many times, which they place under their clothes from the neck to the waist; the weapons themselves indeed are capable of much less mischief than those of the fame kind which we saw at the other islands, for the lances were there pointed with the fharp 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 taste; the clubs were better cut and polished, and the canoe, though a small one, was very rich in ornament, and the carving was executed in a better manner; among other decorations peculiar to this canoe was a line of small white feathers, which hung from the head and ftern on the outfide, and which, when we faw them, were thoroughly wetted by the spray.

Tupia told us, that there were feveral iflands lying 1769. at different diftances and in different directions from August. 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-island: he seemed, however, most defirous that we should fail to the westward, and defcribed feveral iflands 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 Pahie in which he had made the voyage, failed much fafter than the hip: reckoning his Pahie therefore to go at the rate of forty leagues a-day, which, from my own obfervation, 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 Iflands, difcovered by Captain Wallis, weftward of Ulietea, and therefore think it very probable that they were the islands he had vifited. The fartheft ifland that he knew any thing of to the fouthward, he faid, lay at the diftance of about two days fail from Oteroah, and was called MourOU; but he faid that his father had told him there were iflands to the fouthward of that: upon the whole, I was determined to ftand fouthward in fearch of a continent, but to spend no time in fearching for islands, if we did not happen to fall in with them during our course.

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BOOK II.

CHAP. I.

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

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E failed from Oteroah on the 15th of Auguft, and on Friday the 25th we celebrated the anniversary of our leaving England, by taking a Cheshire Tuesday 15 cheefe from a locker, where it had been carefully treaFriday 25. fured 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, that the next morning he died: we thought at firft that he could not have come honeftly by the liquor, but we afterwards leardned that the boatfwain, whofe mate he was, had, in mere good-nature, given him part of a bottle of rum.

Wednef. 30.

On the 30th we faw 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

Auguft.

angle of forty-two degrees. Our latitude was 38° 20' S. 1769. our longitude, by log, 147° 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 utmost precipitation fly to the mountains.

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On the 1ft of September, being in the latitude of September. 402 22 S. and longitude 174° 29′ W. and there not Friday 1. being any figns of land, with a heavy fea from the westward, and ftrong gales, I wore, and flood back to the northward, fearing that we might receive fuch damage in our fails and rigging, as would hinder the profecution of the voyage.

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On the next day, there being ftrong gales to the weft- Saturday 2. ward, I brought to, with the fhip's head to the north

ward; but in the morning of the 3d, the wind being Sunday 3. more moderate, we loofened the reef of the main-fail,

fet the top-fails, and plied to the westward.

We continued our courfe till the 19th, when our Tuesd. 19. latitude being 29° and our longitude 159° 29', we ob

served the variation to be 832 E. On the 24th, being Sunday 24. in latitude 33° 18', longitude 162 51', we obferved a fmall piece of fea-weed, and a piece of wood covered with barnacles: the variation here was 10° 48 E.

October.

Sunday 1.

On the 27th, being in latitude 28° 59′, longitude Wed. 27. 169° 5, we faw a feal afleep upon the water, and feveral bunches of fea-weed. The next day we law more Thurfd. 28. fea-weed in bunches, and on the 29th, a bird, which Friday 29. we thought a land-bird; it fomewhat refembled a fripe, but had a fhort bill. On the ift of October, we faw birds innumerable, and another feal afleep upon the water; it is a general opinion that feals never go out of foundings, or far from land, but thofe that we faw. in these feas prove the contrary. Rock-weed is, however, a certain indication that land is not far diftant. The next day, it being calm, we hoifted out the boat, Mond. 2. to try whether there was a current, but found none. Our latitude was 37° 10', longitude 172° 54' W. On the 3d, being in latitude 36° 56', longitude 173° 27', we Tuef. 3. took up more fea-weed, and another piece of wood co

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1769. vered with barnacles. The next day we faw two more October, feals, and a brown bird, about as big as a raven,

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fome white feathers under the wing. Mr. Gore told us, that birds of this kind were feen in great numbers about Falkland's Iflands, and our people gave them the name of Port-Egmont hens.

On the 5th, we thought the water changed colour, but, upon cafting the lead, had no ground with 180 fathom. In the evening of this day, the variation was 12.50 E. and while we were going nine leagues it encreased to 14° 2.

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On the next day, Friday, October 6th, we faw land from the maft-head, bearing W. by N. and flood directly for it, in the evening it could just be discerned from the deck, and appeared large. The variation this day was, by azimuth and amplitude, 15° 4' E. and by obfervation made of the fun and moon, the longitude of the thip appeared to be 180° 55′ W. and by the medium of this and fubfequent obfervations, there appeared to be an error in the thip's account of longitude, during her run from Otaheite, of 3° 16', The being fo much to the westward of the longitude refulting from the log. At midnight, I brought to and founded, but had no ground with one hundred and feventy fathom.

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On the th, it fell calm, we therefore approached,. the land flowly, and in the afternoon, when a breeze Iprung up, we were ftill diftant feven or eight leagues, It appeared ftill larger as it was more diftinctly feen, with four or five ranges of hills rifing one over the ror other, and a chain of mountains above all, which appeared to be of an enormous, height, This land became the fubject of much eager converfation; but the general opinion feemed to be, that we had found the Terra auftralis incognita. About five o'clock, we faw the opening of a bay, which feemed to run pretty far inland, upon which we hauled our wind and flood in for it; we alfo faw fmoke afcending from different places on fhore. When night came on, however, we.. kept plying off and on till day-light, when we found ourfelves to the leeward of the bay, the wind being at north. We could now perceive that the hills were clothed