Lieutenant on board the Refolution, and "who had been before
'twice at Taheitee, in the Endeavour, and in the Dolphin. Captain
Cook was pleafed alfo to communicate to me, two catalogues o f fuch
ifles as he had heard named in his firft voyage at Taheitee, and from
Tupaya.; I met with another copy o f the chart, drawn after T u -
paya’s direction, in the poftelfion of Jofeph Banks, Eli]. who,
with great politenefs and well known readinefs to promote whatever
has a tendency to become fubfervient to ficience, permitted me
to take a copy of it. I remarked that the charts both agreed in
general, and that the catalogues contained all the names which
were found on the charts, and fome .few more, not inferted in
them. I colledted likewife many names and accounts o f iflands,
when we were at Taheitee and the Society Hies. Some of the names
were* ftrangely fpelt, as there never were two perfons, in the laft
and former voyages, who fpelt the fame name in the fame manner;
•it mull; therefore happen, that fome o f the names feemed to be different;
though upon a more critical examination, I found them
•to agree better than might at firft fight have been expedted: this
«chart I have-caufed to he engraved as a monument o f the ingenuity
and geographical knowledge o f the people in the Society Illes, and
o f Tupaya in particular: the illes are alLnumbered, that I might
'.have an opportunity of referring to thefe numbers, and to add a few
.remarks, which may be thought neceflary for illuftration. The
names
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names themfelves are fpelt as I found them either in one of the a r t s
catalogues, or the>charts, or in my own regifter o f oblervations, SCI„ NCES
a preference being given to the beft authority, and to the analogy
o f the language fpoken in thefe iflebl - T h e chart includes about
20 degrees o f longitude on either fide o f the meridian o f 150 degrees
Weft from Greenwich, or 40 degrees in all, and about 20 degrees
o f South latitude from about 7 degrees to 27 degrees ; the-parallel
of 17 degrees running in the middle. It cannot be expedted that
this chart (hould be o f fuch accuracy as to enable future navigators
to make ufe o f i t : it is chiefly intended to give fome idea o f the
geography o f the inhabitants of the illes in the South Sea, and it
will likewife ferve to make every navigator cautious when he arrives
at that part of the ocean comprehended in this chart; and probably
may be the means o f afcertaining the fituation of thefe numerous
and partly undifcovered illes.
1. O - T A H k i i .E S , called by Capt. Wallis King George s IJland,
and by Mr. de Bougainville ‘Taiti. Tupaya mentioned that
in the life time of his great grandfather (Medooa no the Too-
bolna) a hoftile Ihip; (Pahee-toa) had been there. And it is
very probable, that P edro F e r n an d e z de Q uiros was in
the year 1606, its firft difcoverer, who called it Sagittaria,
according to the ingenious conjedture o f Mr. Dalrymple
in his letter to D r . Hawkefworth, p. 17, and though
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