Oétober ful1^ undertook to carry them a fecond time, after having
'---- -— 1 experienced ho\V unfit a freight they were for fuch a veflel.
Saturday 21,
While thefe gentlemen were on fhore, feveral of the natives
went off to the fhip, and trafficked, by exchanging their
cloth for that of Otaheite : of this barter they were for fome
time very fond, preferring the Indian cloth to that o f Europe :
but before night it decreafed in its value five hundred per
cent. Many of thefe Indians I took on board, and fhewed
them the fhip and her apparatus, at which they exprefled
equal fatisfadfion and aftonifhmeht.
As I found it exceedingly difficult to get water on board on
account of the furf, I determined to flay no longer at this
Sunday I*, place; on the next morning therefore, about five o’clock, I
weighed anchor and put to fea.
This bay, which is called by the natives T e g a d o o , lies
in the latitude of 38° 10'S., but as it has nothing to recommend
it, a defcription of it is unneceflary.
From this bay I intended to ftand on to the northward, but
the wind being right againft me, I could make no way.
While I was beating about to windward, fome o f the natives
came on board, and told me, that in a bay which lay a little
to the fouthward, being the fame that I could hot fetch
the day I put into Tegadoo, there was excellent water, whfcfö
the boats might land without a furf. I thought it better
therefore to put into this bay, where I might complete my
water, and form farther connexions with thé Indians, than
to keep the fea. With this view I bore up for it, arid lent in
two boats, manned and armed, to examine the warering-
place, who confirming the report of the Indians at their fè-
turn, I came to an anchor about one o’clock, in eleven fa-,
thorn water, with a fine fandy bottom, the north point óf thé
bay N. by E. and the fouth point S. E. The watering-place,
tvhich
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which was in a final! cove a little within the fouth point of
the bay, bore S. by E. diftant about a mile. Many canoes
came immediately off from the fhore, and all traded very ho- "
neftly for Otaheite cloth and glafs bottles, of which they
were immoderately fond.
In the afternoon of the 23d, as foon as the fhip was moored, Monday ,3.
I went on fhore to examine the watering-place, accompanied
by Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander : the boat landed in the cove,
without the leaf! furf; the water was excellent, and conveniently
fituated; there was plenty of wood clofe to high-
water mark, and the difpofition of the people was in every
refpect fuch as we could wifh.
Having, with Mr. Green, taken feveral obfervations of the
fun and moon, the mean refult of them gave 1800 47' W.
longitude; but, as all the obfervations made before exceeded
thefe, I have laid down the coaft from the mean of the
whole. At noon, I took the fun’s meridian altitude with an
aftronomical quadrant, which was fet up at the watering-
place, and found the latitude to be 38° 22' 24'v
On the 24th, early in the morning, I fent Lieutenant Gore Taefday 24*
on fhore, to fuperintend the cutting of wood and filling of
water, with a fufficient number of men for both purpofes,
and all the marines as a guard. After breakfaft, I went on
fhore myfelf, and continued there the whole day.
Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander alfo went on fhore to gather
plants, and in their walks faw feveral things worthy of notice
They met with many houfes in the vallies that feemed
to be wholly deferted, the people living on the ridges of the
hills in a kind of lheds very flightly built. As they were
advancing in one of thefe vallies, the hills on each fide of
which were very fteep, they were fuddenly ftruck with the
fip-ht of a very extraordinary natural curiofity. It was a rock,
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