C O N T E N T S .
C S a p . V. The Courfefrom New Zeeland to Tierra del Fuego.— Stay
at Chriftmas Harbour, 4 S l
C h a p . VI. Stay at the New.Tmr’sIJlands.— Difcovery of Lands to
the Southward.— Return to the Cafe of Good Hope, 5 12
C h a p . VII. Second Stay at the Cape of Good Hope.— Runfrom thence
. to the IJlands of St. Helena and AfcenJion, 5 4 8
C h a p . VIII. Run from from Afcenfion pajl the IJland of Fernando
.da Noronha, to the Açores.— Stay at Payai.— Return to England,
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P. 40.1. 3. fir mild..............rtad 'wild.
rfo. in the note, A//Dr.-Hunter, ie*he Phil. Tranf.
443. in the note, f ir e,?:t';v', read 4 .>410
.5*7.1. j . accompanid wceempanied.
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V O Y A G E
R O U N D T H E
W O R L D .
B O O K II.
C H A P . V.
Run from Fajler I f and to the Marquefai— Stay in Madre-de-Dios harbour
on Waitahoo— Courfe from thence through the Low Ifands to
Taheitee.
T H E breeze with which we failed from Eafler Ifland 1774.
March
was fo gentle, that we were ftill in fight of it the Thurfday
nest day at noon, at the diftance of fifteen leagues. The
weather was rather fultry, and captain Cook relapfed into his
former bilious diforder, by having exerted himfelf too much
on Wore, during the violent heat of noon. All thofe who
had been on the long excurfion acrofs the illand, had their
faces bliftered by the fun, and extremely painful in proportion
as the fkin peeled off. The fhort flay near the land,
and the ufe of a few vegetables from thence, had greatly
reftored to their health thofe who were affliSed with the
Vol. II. B fcurvy