JHfL ikirts of the woods, not half fo large as gnats or mulketoes,
and our failors called them fand-flies. Their fling was extremely
painful, and as often as the hand or face grew
warm, caufed a troublefome itching, the leaft irritation of
which brought on a very violent fwelling, attended with
great pain. We were, however, not all equally affected;
■ myfelf in particular, never felt any great inconvenience
from them ; others, on the contrary, fuffered in a very violent
degree, efpecially my father, who could not hold a
pen to write down the common occurrences in a journal, and
fell into a high fever at night. Various remedies were tried,
but all proved ineffectual, except the Ample undtion with
foft pomatum, and the conftant ufe of gloves,
ituetday 6. Early ,on the 6 th, feveral of the officers went into the
cove, which the captain had difcovered on the 2d ; and the
latter, accompanied by Mr. Hodges, Dr. Sparrman, my father,
and myfelf proceeded in another boat, to continue the
furvey of the bay, to copy views from nature, and to fearch
for the natural productions of the country. We directed our
courfe to the north fide, where we found a fine fpacious cove,
from which we had not the leaft profpedt of the fea. Along
its fteep fhores we obfer-ved feveral final! but beautiful caf-
cades, which fell from vaft heights, and greatly improved
the fcene ; they gufhed out through the midft of the woods,
and at laft fell in a clear column, to which a ffiip might
lie fo near, as to fill her calks on board with the greateft
fafety.
fafety, by means of a leather tube, which the failots call
a hofe. At the bottom there was a fhallow muddy part,
with a little beach of fhell-fandj and a brook, as in all the
greater coves of the bay. In this fine place, we found a
number of wild fowl, and particularly wild ducks, of which
we Ihot fourteen, from whence we gave it the name of
Duck Cove. As we were returning home, we heard a loud
hallooing on the rocky point of an ifland-, which on this
occafion obtained the name of Indian Ifland ; and Handing
in to the fhore, we perceived one of the natives, from whom
this noife proceeded. He flood with a club or battle-axe
in his hand, on a projecting point, and behind him on the
Ikirts of the wood we faw two women, each of them having
a long fpear. When our boat came to the foot of the
rock, we called to him, in the language of Taheitee, tayo,
lane mat, “ friend, come hither he did not, however,
ftir from his poll, but held a long fpeeeh, at certain intervals
pronouncing it with great earneftnefs and vehemence,
and fwinging round his club, on which he leaned at other
times. Captain Cook went to the head of the boat, called
to him in a friendly manner, and threw him his own and
fome other handkerchiefs, which he would not pick up.
The captain then taking fome ffieets of white paper in his
hand, landed on the rock unarmed, and held the paper out
to the native. The man now trembled very vifibly, and
having exhibited ftrong marks of fear in his countenance,
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