>77J. crime of fo deep a dye as to exclude her from the efteem
September. . . r ‘ . . v.— .— > and lociety of the community in general. On the whole, a
ftranger who vifits England might, with equal juftice, draw
the chara&ers of the women there, from thofe which he
might meet with on board the fhips in one of the naval
ports, or in the purlieus of Covent-Garden and Drury-Lane.
I muft, however, allow that they are all completely verfed
in the art of coquetry, and that very few of them fix any
bounds to their converfation. It is, therefore, no wonder
that they have obtained the character of libertines.
To what hath been faid of the geography of thefe ifles, in
the narrative of my former voyage, I fliall now only add,
that we found the latitude o f Oaiti-piha bay, in Otaheite, to
be 170 46' 28" South, and the longitude 0' .21' 254" Eaft
from Point Venus ; or 1490 13' 24" Welt from Greenwich-
The difference both of latitude and longitude, between Point
Venus and Oaiti-piha, is greater than I fuppofed it to be,
when I made the circuit of the ifland in 1769, by two miles
and miles refpedtively. It is, therefore, highly probable,
that the whole illand is of a greater extent, than I, at
that time, eftimated it to be. The aftronomers fet up their
obfervatory, and made their obfervations, on Point Venus,
the latitude of which they found to be 170 29' 13" South-
This differs but two feconds from that which Mr. Green and
I found; and its longitude, viz. 1490 34' 494" Weft, for any
thing that is yet known to the contrary, is as cxaft.
Mr. Kendal’s watch was found to be gaining on meantime
8" 863 per day, which is only o" 142 lefs than at Queen
Charlotte’s Sound, confequently its error in longitude was
trifling.
A VQ Y-
0 Y A G E
T O W A R D S T H :E
s 0 u T H P O L E,
A N D
1 U N D T H E W O R L D.
B O O K II.
From our Departure from the Society Ifles,
to our Return to, and leaving them the
Second Time-
C H A P. I .
Pajfage from Ulietea to the Friendly I fu nds, with an
Account o f the Difcovery o f Herveys I f and, and the
Incidents that happened at Middleburg.
A FTER leaving Ulietea, as before mentioned, I ,773.
fleered to the Weft, inclining to the South; to get .Sgplembpr‘,.
clear of the tracks' of former navigators, and to Fnda>' ‘7-’
get into the latitude of the illands of Middleburg and Am-
fterdam: fo r i intended to run as far Weft as thefe illands,
and to touch there if I found it convenient, before I hauled
up for New Zealand. I generally lay to every night, left we:
might; .