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B O O K II.
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The Pajfage from Oteroah to New Z ea la n d ; Incidents
which happened on going a-fhore there, and while the.
Ship lay in Poverty Bay.
WE failed from Oteroah on the j5th of Auguft, and on 1769.
Friday the 35th we celebrated the anniverfary of our . Au8u<t’ ,
leaving England, by taking a Chefliire cheefe from a locker,
where it had been carefully treafured up for this occafion,
and tapping a calk of porter, which proved to be very good
and in excellent order. On the 29th, one of the failors got
fo drunk,, that the next morning he died: we thought at firffe
that he could not have come honeftly by the liquor, but we
afterwards learnt that the boatfwain, whofe mate he was,
had in mere good-nature given him part of a bottle of rum.
On the 30th we faw the comet; at one o’clock in the morn- Wednof
ing it was a little above the horizon in the eaftern part of
the heavens •, at about half an hour after four it pafled the
meridian, and its tail fubtended an angle of forty-two degrees..