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age would refleft immortal honour on our employers, if it
had no other merit than flocking Taheitee with goats, the
Friendly Ifles and New Hebrides with dogs, and New Zee-
land and New Caledonia with hogs. It is therefore fin-
cerely to be wilhcd, that voyages of difcovery, upon a dif-
interefted plan, may ftill be profecuted with vigour, as much
remains to be done, even in the South Sea ; unlefs it fhould
he in the power of illiberal men to defeat the great and
generous views of a monarch, who is juftly called the patron
of fcience. A Angle remark, which may be of exten-
five ufe to pofterity; a Angle circumftance, which may make
happy our fellow-creatures in thofe remote parts of the
world, repays the toils of the navigation, and bellows
that great reward, the confcioufnefs of good and noble
actions.
London,
March «, ?777* «SV F O R S T E S .
C O N T E N
B O O K I.
Chap. I. Departure. — Pajfage from Plymouth to Madeira.—
Defcription of that Ifland, p- t
Chap. II. the Pajfagefrom Madeira to the Cape VerdIJIands, and
from thence to the Cape of Good Mope, 28
Chap. III. Stay at the Cape of Good Hope.— Account of that Set-
tlement, 5®
Chap. IV. Runfrom the Cape to the Antarctic Circle-, firjl Seafon
fpent in high Southern Latitudes.— Arrival on the Coajl o f New
Zeeland,
C hap. V. Stay'at Dujky Bay, Defcription.of it, and Account of our
Pranfaftions there, 12 3
Chap. VI. Pqfqgefrom Dujky Bay to %yeen Charlotte's Sound.—
JunSlion with the Adventure.— Pranfaflions during our Stay there,
189
Chap. VII. Run from New Zeeland to O-Paheitee, 232
Chap. VIII. Anchorage in O-Aitefeha Harbour, on the lefer Penin-
fda of O-Paheitee.— Account of our Stay there.— Removal to Ma-
.tavdi Bay, ZS3
Chap.