9 Hj perate climates below 300 of latitude. The fetting fun
illumined the clouds with the mod brilliant tints of gold,
■ which confirmed us in the opinion that the colours of the
Iky are no where fo rich and beautiful as between or
near the tropics.
Wedncfd, 18. On the 28th we fpoke with the Adventure, and heard
that they had buried their cook three days ago, and that
about twenty of her people were very ill of the fcurvy.
This was the more furprifing to us, as we had but very
few people affedted with any fymptoms of that diforder,
and only one who was dangeroufly lick. The next day
captain Cook fent one of his feamen with a warrant to
adl as cook on board the Adventure ; and feveral of our
gentlemen took the opportunity of going to dine with their
friends. They found captain Furneaux and fome others
very ill of a rheumatic complaint, and many of the people
had fluxes. Their carpenter was remarkable ill of the
fcurvy, and had great livid blotches on his legs. This
difference between the falubrity of the two veflels probably
arofe from the want of frefh air in the Adventure, our
floop being higher out of the water, fo that we could open
more fcuttles in bad weather than our confort. Our people
likewife made a greater confumption of four-krout and
wort, and particularly applied the grains of the latter to all
blotches and fwelled parts, a regimen which had been omitted
by thofe in the Adventure. On this occafion it is not
improper to remark, that the fcurvy is more dangerous
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and virulent in warm climates than in cold. As long as adgosY
we had kept in high latitudes it did not make its appearance,
or was at leaft confined to a few individuals, who
were naturally of a bad habit of body ; but we had fcarcely
had ten days of warm weather when one man died, and a
number of others were affected with the worft fymptoms of
this dreadful diftemper, on board the Adventure. It fhould
therefore feem that the heat contributes to inflammation
and putrefa&ion ; and its general effeCt, even among thofe
who had no dangerous fcorbutic complaints, was a great
degree of languor and debility. ,
On the 4th of Auguft a young bitch, of the terrier wednefday4.
breed, taken on board at the Cape of Good Hope, and covered
by a fpaniel, brought ten young ones, one of which
was dead. The New Zeeland dog, mentioned above,
which devoured the bones of the roafted dog, now fell
upon the dead puppy, and ate of it with a ravenous appetite.
This is a proof how far education may go in producing
and propagating new inftinCts in animals. European
dogs are never fed on the meat of their own fpecies,
but rather feem to abhor it. The New Zeeland dogs, in
all likelihood, are trained up from their earlieft age to eat
the remains of their matter's meals ; they are therefore
ufed to feed upon fifh, their own fpecies, and perhaps human
flefli; and what was only owing to habit at firft,
may have become inftincT by length of time. This was
I i 2 remarkable