'773* We fettled the aftronomer with his inftruments, and a
April. . . . , <----—j fufEcient guard, on a fmall ifland, that is joined, to Motu-
Saturday 10. a( iow water, called the Hippa, where there was an old
fortified town that the natives had forfaken. Their houfes
ferved our people to live in ; and, by finking them about a
foot infide, we made them very comfortable. Having done
this, we ftruck our tents on the Motuara, and having removed
the fhip farther into the cove, on the Weft Ihore,
moored her for the winter. We then erecfted our tents near
the river or watering-place, and fent afhore all the fpars and
lumber off the decks, that'they might be caulked; and
gave her a winter coat to preferve the hull and rigging.
TudH.y !'• ° n tlle IIth of May, we felt two fevere fhocks of an earth-
Mond=y i7. quake, but received no kind of damage. On the 17th we
were furprifed by the people firing guns on the Hippa, and
having fent the boat, as foon as lhe opened the found, had
the pleafure of feeing the Refolution off the mouth of it.
We immediately fent out the boats to her affiftance to tow
her in, it being calm. In the evening fhe anchored about
a mile without us ; and next morning weighed and warped
within us. Both lhips felt uncommon joy at c.ur meeting,
after an abfence of fourteen weeks.
CHAP.
C H A P . VIII.
‘tranfaSlions in Queen Charlotte s Sound, with fome Remarks
on the Inhabitants.
' 7 " NO WING that fcurvy-grafs, celery, and other vege-
1773.
7V. tables were to be found in this found, I went myfelf
May.
the morning after my arrival, at day-break, to look for fome, Wedlwf- ‘9-
and returned on board at breakfaft with a boat load. Being
now fatisfied, that enough was to be got for the crews of
both fhips, I gave orders that they Ihould be boiled, with wheat
and portable broth, every morning for breakfaft; and with
peafe and broth for dinner; knowing from experience, that
thefe vegetables, thus dreffed, are extremely beneficial, in
removing all manner of fcorbutic complaints.
I have already mentioned a defire I had of vifiting Van
Diemen’s Land, in order to inform myfelf if it made a part
of New Holland; and I certainly Ihould' have done this, had
the winds proved favourable. But as Captain Furneaux had,
now, in a great meafure, cleared up that point, I could have
no bufinefs there; and therefore came to a refolution to continue
our refearches to the Eaft between the latitudes of 410
and 46°,, I acquainted Captain Furneaux therewith, and ordered
him to get his Ihip in readinefs to put to fea as foon as
poflible.
In the morning of the 20th, I fent alhore, to the watering-
place near the Adventure’s' tent, the only ewe and ram remaining,
of thofe which I brought from the Cape of Good
Hope with an intent to leave in this country. Soon after I
Voi. I. R vifited