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harbour is not quite free from this inconvenience, but far more so than the other; it is also rather morecommodious, and equally safe. It lies in the direction of north, a mile and a half distant from the east end ofBurnt Island. I likewise found a good anchoring-place a little to the west of this harbour, before a stream ofwater, that comes out of a lake or large reservoir, which is continually supplied by a cascade falling into it.Leaving this place, we proceeded along the shore to the westward, and found other harbours which I hadnot time to look into. In all of them is fresh water, and wood for fuel; but, except these little tufts of bushes,the whole country is a barren rock, doomed by nature to everlasting sterility. The low islands, and evensome of the higher, which lie scattered up and down the sound, are indeed mostly covered with shrubs andherbage, the soil a black rotten turf, evidently composed, by length of time, of decayed vegetables.I had an opportunity to verify what we had observed at sea, that the sea- coast is composed of a number oflarge and small islands, and that the numerous inlets are formed by the junction of several channels; at leastso it is here. On one of these low islands we found several huts, which had lately been inhabited; and nearthem was a good deal of celery, with which we loaded our boat, and returned on board at seven o'clock inthe evening. In this expedition we met with little game; one duck, three or four shags, and about thatnumber of rails or sea-pies, being all we got. The other boat returned on board some hours before, havingfound two harbours on the west side of the other channel; the one large, and the other small, but both ofthem safe and commodious; though, by the sketch Mr Pickersgill had taken of them, the access to bothappeared rather intricate.[2]I was now told of a melancholy accident which had befallen one of our marines. He had not been seensince eleven or twelve o'clock the preceding night. It was supposed that he had fallen overboard, out of thehead, where he had been last seen, and was drowned.Having fine pleasant weather on the 23d, I sent Lieutenant Pickersgill in the cutter to explore the east sideof the sound, and went myself in the pinnace to the west side, with an intent to go round the island, underwhich we were at anchor (and which I shall distinguish by the name of Shag Island), in order to view thepassage leading to the harbours Mr Pickersgill had discovered the day before, on which I made thefollowing observations. In coming from sea, leave all the rocks and islands, lying off and within YorkMinster, on your larboard side; and the black rock, which lies off the south end of Shag Island, on yourstarboard; and when abreast of the south end of that island, haul over for the west shore, taking care toavoid the beds of weeds you will see before you, as they always grow on rocks; some of which I havefound twelve fathoms under water; but it is always best to keep clear of them. The entrance to the largeharbour, or Port Clerke, is just to the north of some low rocks lying off a point on Shag Island. Thisharbour lies in W. by S., a mile and a half, and hath in it from twelve to twenty-four fathoms depth, woodand fresh water. About a mile without, or to the southward of Port Clerke, is, or seemed to be, anotherwhich I did not examine. It is formed by a large island which covers it from the south and east winds.Without this island, that is, between it and York Minster, the sea seemed strewed with islets, rocks, andbreakers. In proceeding round the south end of Shag Island, we observed the shags to breed in vastnumbers in the cliffs of the rock. Some of the old ones we shot, but could not come at the young ones,which are by far the best eating. On the east side of the island we saw some geese; and having withdifficulty landed, we killed three, which, at this time, was a valuable acquisition.About seven, in the evening, we got on board, where Mr Pickersgill had arrived but just before. Heinformed me that the land opposite to our station was an island, which he had been round; that on another,more to the north, be found many terns eggs; and that without the great island, between it and the east-
head, lay a cove in which were many geese; one only of which he got, beside some young goslings.This information of Mr Pickersgill's induced me to make up two shooting parties next day; Mr Pickersgilland his associates going in the cutter, and myself and the botanists in the pinnace. Mr Pickersgill went bythe N.E. side of the large island above-mentioned, which obtained the name of Goose Island; and I went bythe S.W. side. As soon as we got under the island we found plenty of shags in the cliffs, but, withoutstaying to spend our time and shot upon these, we proceeded on, and presently found sport enough, for inthe south side of the island were abundance of geese. It happened to be the moulting season; and most ofthem were on shore for that purpose, and could not fly. There being a great surf, we found great difficultyin landing, and very bad climbing over the rocks when we were landed; so that hundreds of the geeseescaped us, some into the sea, and others up into the island. We, however, by one means or other, gotsixty- two, with which we returned on board all heartily tired; but the acquisition we had madeoverbalanced every other consideration, and we sat down with a good appetite to supper on part of whatthe preceding day had produced. Mr Pickersgill and his associates had got on board some time before uswith fourteen geese; so that I was able to make distribution to the whole crew, which was the moreacceptable on account of the approaching festival. For had not Providence thus singularly provided for us,our Christmas cheer must have been salt beef and pork.I now learnt that a number of the natives, in nine canoes, had been alongside the ship, and some on board.Little address was required to persuade them to either; for they seemed to be well enough acquainted withEuropeans, and had, amongst them, some of their knives.The next morning, the 25th, they made us another visit. I found them to be of the same nation I hadformerly seen in Success Bay, and the same which M. de Bougainville distinguishes by the name ofPecheras; a word which these had, on every occasion, in their mouths. They are a little, ugly, half-starved,beardless race. I saw not a tall person amongst them. They are almost naked; their clothing was a seal-skin;some had two or three sewed together, so as to make a cloak which reached to the knees; but the most ofthem had only one skin, hardly large enough to cover their shoulders, and all their lower parts were quitenaked. The women, I was told, cover their nakedness with the flap of a seal-skin, but in other respects areclothed like the men. They, as well as the children, remained in the canoes. I saw two young children at thebreast entirely naked; thus they are inured from their infancy to cold and hardships. They had with thembows and arrows, and darts, or rather harpoons, made of bone, and fitted to a staff. I suppose they wereintended to kill seals and fish; they may also kill whales with them, as the Esquimaux do. I know not ifthey resemble them in their love of train-oil; but they and every thing they had smelt most intolerably of it.I ordered them some biscuit, but did not observe them so fond of it as I had been told. They were muchbetter pleased when I gave them some medals, knives, &c.[3]The women and children, as before observed, remained in their canoes. These were made of bark; and ineach was a fire, over which the poor creatures huddled themselves. I cannot suppose that they carry a firein their canoes for this purpose only, but rather that it may be always ready to remove ashore whereverthey land; for let their method of obtaining fire be what it may, they cannot be always sure of finding dryfuel that will kindle from a spark. They likewise carry in their canoes large seal hides, which I judged wereto shelter them when at sea, and to serve as covering to their huts on shore, and occasionally to be used forsails.They all retired before dinner, and did not wait to partake of our Christmas cheer. Indeed I believe no oneinvited them, and for good reasons; for their dirty persons, and the stench they carried about them, were
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AGENERALHISTORY AND COLLECTIONOFVOY
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Produce, and Inhabitants: Astronomi
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SECTION I. Passage from Ulietea to
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First Voyage, &c., second edition.
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After leaving these islands, Quiros
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of his instructions, he did not fin
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had been well ascertained, and foun
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[14] Till the discovery of what has
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third lieutenants, the lieutenant o
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have made, would have done honour t
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learning from his voyage; that he w
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long as the condition of the ships,
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occasional use of fires to destroy
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To record incidents such as these,
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on this occasion, was not omitted.T
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At two in the afternoon on the 29th
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[10] Mr G.F. speaks with much more
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steering directly for, till we were
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ears; they immediately rowed toward
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On the 24th, the wind blew from N.W
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This longitude is nearly the same t
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Myself, being the mean of six dista
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land.At nine o'clock, the wind veer
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elieve that land of any extent lay
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seen in the heavens, similar to tho
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and dashing of the waves into the c
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longitude was 121° 9'. At three o'
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We continued to advance to the N.E.
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come nearer. After dinner I took tw
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discover himself, had taken some li
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These he never would suffer to go o
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continued without intermission till
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emote from the present trading part
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which is not more remarkable for th
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clouds, and seemed to forebode much
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which appears supernatural, and wil
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hills; plenty of water which falls
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and with much difficulty we saved h
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myself the morning after my arrival
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lioness. It certainly bore much res
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me before that time, he was then to
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their existence. But nature, we may
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subject, this disease was indigenou
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and seldom higher than 54, at the s
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the time, blew from different direc
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inhabiting the lithophytes. They ra
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were striking, and left us a little
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After the first salutation was over
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presented the king with two fine go
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former. I told them to return me th
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the harbour, I chose to turn in by
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going. As his intention in coming i
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which taught him to avoid the socie
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On the 11th, early in the morning,
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one; at last, all my enquiries gave
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disease existed at Otaheite previou
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is soft and pulpy, then they spit i
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many parts of England."-G.F.After r
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they did not seem willing to part w
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extraordinary value at Otaheite and
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After we had done examining this pl
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The officer informed me that the na
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ass kettle, a saw, two large spikes
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[1] This subject is resumed in the
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desirous of those we had on board.
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Their ornaments are amulets, neckla
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wants the common necessaries of lif
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common features, and cannot, theref
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six o'clock, being off Cloudy Bay,
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eing persuaded they would take prop
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we embarked, in order to return on
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youth under twenty.[8][7] An instan
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in the history of almost all nation
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for Cape Teerawhitte, and afterward
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The Sun himselfe cannot forgetHis f
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place where they are formed.[3][3]
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manner, covered with ice; a hard ga
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improvement of discipline, the incr
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pintadoe peterel, some blue peterel
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south, which soon after freshened,
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Endeavour; so that this can hardly
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stocked with abundance of fowls and
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lackish brown cavernous and brittle
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passed along, they observed on a hi
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fresh water worth taking on board.
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towards each end. To these are tied
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perseverance of these islanders in
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I continued to steer to the west ti
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ut could not prevail on the chief t
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are a mile from each other, in the
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grounds, for such an inference.--E.
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abounding, I have been told, with f
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now entirely recovered from the blo
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come forwards in a curve. This fron
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Next day we had a present of a hog
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dinner; after which I went down to
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more proper for me to go. All his a
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end; and all I could expect, after
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We had no sooner dispatched our fri
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send him red feathers in abundance.
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hundred and ten, besides smaller ca
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especially by the ladies; as many o
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went on shore with a boat's crew, a
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in the neighbourhood; but they were
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which, according to the simplicity
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their religion, customs, traditions
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Before I finish this account of the
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heights; and only myself, and four
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the same that Tasman watered at. In
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officer. One time, after he had bee
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uncultivated. There is, however, fa
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the 9th, when we had for a few hour
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small shot, I gave him the contents
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of a negroe. Their beards are very
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view of plying up to the eastward o
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acceptable entertainment, and were
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then, to pop out and throw a dart.
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SECTION V.An Intercourse establishe
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troublesome to the eyes.Early in th
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island. Hence, that gentleman infer
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expeditious as it can well be. They
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observed, were planted as thick as
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that were prevailed on to stay, ran
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