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' fore-part of it, and the others, with great adlivity, paddled
her off, the reft of the canoes following as fall as they could:
upon this the marines, who were under arms upon deck,
were ordered to fire. The fhot was directed to that part of
the canoe which was fartheft from the boy, and rather wide
of her, being willing rather to mifs the rowers than to hurt
him: it happened, however, that one man dropped, upon
which the others quitted their hold of the boy, who inftantly
leaped into the water, and fwam towards the fhip; the large
canoe immediately pulled round and followed him, but
fome mufquets, and a great gun being fired at her, fhe de-
fifted from the purfuit. The fhip being brought to, a boat
was lowered, and the poor boy taken up unhurt, though fo
terrified that for a time he feemed to be deprived of his
fenfes. Some of the gentlemen who traced the canoes to Ihore
with their glades, faid, that they faw three men carried up
the beach, who appeared to be either dead, or wholly difabled
by their wounds.
To the cape off which this unhappy tranfadlion happened,
I gave the name of C a p e K i d n a p p e r s . It lies in latitude 39®
43', and longitude 183° 24' W. and is rendered remarkable by
two white rocks like hay ftacks, and the high white cliffs on
each fide. It lies S. W. by W. diftant thirteen leagues from
the file of Portland; and between them is the bay of which
it is the fouth point, and which, in honour of Sir Edward
Hawke, then Firft Lord of the Admiralty, I called H a w k e ’s
Hawke’sEay. B a y . We found in it from twenty-four to feven fathom,
and good anchorage. From Cape Kidnappers the land
trends S. S. W. and in this diredtion we made our run along
the fhore, keeping at about a league diftance, with a fteady
breeze and clear weather.
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As foon as Tayeto recovered from his fright, he brought a
fifh to Tupia, and told him, that he intended it as an offering
to his Eatua, or god, in gratitude for his efcape; Tupia commended
his piety, and ordered him to throw the fifh into the
fea, which was accordingly done.
About two o’clock in the afternoon, we paffed a fmall but
high“white ifland, lying clofe to the fhore, upon which we
faw many houfes, boats, and people. The people we concluded
to be fifhers, becaufe the ifland was totally barren;
we faw feveral people alfo on fhore, in a fmall bay upon
the main, within the ifland. At eleven, we brought to till Monday .6,
day-light, and then made fail to the fouthward, along the
fhore. About feven o’clock we paft a high point of -land,
which lies S.S.W. twelve leagues from Cape Kidnappers:
from this point the land trends three-fourths of a point more
to the weftward; at ten, we faw more land open to the fouthward,
and at noon, the fouthermoft land that was in fight,
bore S. 39 W. diftant eight or ten leagues, and a high bluff
head, with yellowifh cliffs, bore W. diftant about two
miles : the depth of water was thirty-two fathom.
In the afternoon we had a frefh breeze at weft, and during
the night variable light airs and calms : in the morning a t uefday 17.
gentle breeze fprung up between the N. W. and N.E. and
having till now flood to the fouthward, without feeing any
probability of meeting with a harbour, and the country ma-
nifeftly altering for the worfe, I thought that, (landing farther
in that diredtion would be attended with no advantage, but
on the contrary would be a lofs of time that might be employed
with a better profpedt of fuccefs in examining the
coaft to the northward; about one, therefore, in the afternoon,
I tacked, and flood north, with a frefh breeze at weft.
The high bluff head, with yeliowifh cliffs, which we were
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October.
Sunday 15.