race as thofe who dwell on O-Taheitee and the Society Hies,
of which the firft is within half a day’s fail; and that they
give the name of M a ite a * to their own ifland; We never
came nearer than four leagues to it, which was probably
the reafon that no canoes came off tovifit us. Having
very little wind we hoiffied a boat out, Which went on board
the Adventure, and brought Captain furneau* to dine with
us M e had the pleafure to learn from him, that the flux
among his- crew was ceafed, and that none of his people-
were in any imminent danger from the fcurvy | we hoped
therefore, from our vicinity to O-Taheitee, t0 a^'e a
fpeedy opportunity of reftoring their health by a wholefome
vegetable diet. B m
In the evening, about fun let, we V y
an ifland on the i oth of February i do 6, calling it la Sapit:
taria *, which, from all the concurring circumftances, feems
to have been O-Taheitee. He found no harbours on the
fouth part, where he fell in with i t ; but the people he fent
afliore were treated with the greated marks of friendfliip
and kindnefs. Captain Wallis next found this ifland on
the i 8th of Ju,n.e 17 67, and called it George the Third’s
Ifland. Som,e unhappy mifunderftanding arifing between
him and the natives at fifft, he fired upon them, killed
about fifteen, and wounded a great number; but thefe
good tempered people, forgetting the great lofs they had
fuftained, and the wounds their brethren had received,
made peace with him foon after, and furnifhed him with
a profufion of refrefhments, confuting of feveral roots,
many forts of rich fruit, fowls, and hogs. M. de Bougainville
mountains o f .ha, d.fimble Wand, lymg before n. W f
emerging, tom f t . f a * “ ‘h' '
» an on board, ™ « » » g j g i *b"=
W i badened eager* | M P P g | g | ihe.r eyes,
on an objefl, of »hich they seem tan g * » form da= '8 -
eft expectations, both in refpeft of ,he abnndance of r«.
freftrmems, and of .he bind and genemus mmpe, .he
„„ive s, whofe character has pleated .I f .be „ .„g a .o js who-
W e vift.ed ,hem. th e ft.ft difcoverer s ...
Spaniard, W
Lima in M on ,he M of December , M M He m
arrived in the eafiern part on the 2d of April
1768, or about nine months and a half after the departure
of Captain Wallis, and difeovered the true indigenous name
of this ifland ; fenfible of the amiable character of the inhabitants,
he ftaid ten days among them, giving and receiving
frequent marks of friendfliip and regard. Captain Cook,
in the Endeavour, arriving here in April 1769, to ob-
ferve the tranfit of Venus, circumnavigated the whole
ifland in a boat; and, during a flay of three months, had
* See an Hiftorical Collection of the feveral Voyages and Difcoveries in the
South Pacific Ocean, by Alexander Dalrymple, Efq, vol. I, f>, 109 to 117.
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