Fcbma4' ^ie l°nS'tu8e by Kendall’s to be . ' - 205° 8' 45"
1— y — A rnold’s No. 14, - - 204 26
Ditto 176, - - . . 204 x
The true longitude of Karakakooa being 204°, fhews
their refpeftive errors; by which Kendall’s chronometer
was at noon on the 19th of february, 1794, fall of mean
time at Greenwich, - - . _ gh 30' 17" 59"'
And, by twenty-fix days correfpohding altitudes, was
found to be gaining on mean time per day at the rate of 15 16
Arnold’s No. 14, fall of mean time at Greenwich, as
above, - - - . . 3 25 49 59
And gaining on mean time per day at the rate o f 21 12
Arnold’s No. 176, fall o f mean time at Greenwich, as
above, . - - - . - 7 38 33 59
And gaining on mean time per day at the rate o f 48 28
Arnold’s No. 82, on board the Chatham, fall o f mean
time at Greenwich, as above, - - - 8 25 53 59
And gaining on mean time per day at the rate o f 35 25
The latitude, by twenty-one meridional altitudes of the fun, and three
meridional altitudes o f the liars, varying from 19° 27' 27" to 19° 28' 27",
and differing 20" from the mean refult o f the observations made in the
month of march, 1793, (hewed by the mean refult o f both years obfer-
vations, the latitude to be ig° 28' 2".
CH A PTER
C H A P T E R II.
Quit Karakakooa,— Vifit Tyahtatooa and. Toeaigh bays— Some defcription o f
the anchorage atthofe places,—Examine the northern /ides o f Mowee,
Woahoo, and Attowai~~Olferuations on the anchorage at Attowai and
Onehow— Leave the Sandwich ijlands.
N o t h i n g now remained to detain us in Karakakooa bay, the memora- >794.
ble fpot where Captain Cook unfortunately fell a facrifice to his undaunted . c mary' l
and enterprifing fpirit. Notwithllanding it had, in that melancholy in-
llance, proved fatal to one of the moll illullrious navigators that the world
ever produced, yet to us it had proved an afylum, where the hofpita-
ble reception, and friendly treatment were fuch as could not have been
furpalfed by the moll enlightened nation of the earth. The unremitted
attention in the fuperior clalfes, to preferve good order, and infure the
faithful difcharge of every fervice undertaken by the fubordinate defcription
of the people, produced an uniform degree of refpeft in their deportment,
a cheerful obedience to the commands they received, and a
drift obfervance and conformity to fair and honed dealing in all their
commercial intercourfe. Excepting in the indances of the table knives,
the centinel’s cartridge-box, and a few others of little moment, occafi-
oned, very probably, by our want of difcretion in leaving irrelidible
temptations in their way, we had little to complain o f ; and fuch circum-
dances of this nature as did occur, ought only to be comfidered as re-
fieftions on the particular individuals concerned, and not as generally
charafteridic of the whole people. .
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