'773- vifited the feveral gardens Captain Furneaux had caufed to be
■ t made and planted with various articles; all of which were
in a flourifhingftate, and, if attended to by the natives, may
Friday 21. prove of great utility to them. The next day I fet fome men
to work to make a garden on Long Illand, which I planted
with garden feeds, roots, &c.
Saturday 22. On the 2 2d in the morning, the ewe and ram, I had with.
fo much care and trouble brought to this place, were both
found dead ; occafioned, as was fuppofed, by eating fome
poifonous plant. Thus my hopes of flocking this country
with a breed of fheep, were blafted in a moment. About
noon, we were vifited, for the firft time fince I arrived, by
fome of the natives, who dined with us; and it was not a;
little they devoured. In the evening, they were difmified
with prefents.
Monday 24, Early in the morning of the 34th, I fent Mr. Gilbert the
matter to found about the rock we had difcovered in the
entrance of the found. Myfelf, accompanied by Captain
Furneaux and Mr. Forfter, went in a boat to the Weft bay on
a fhooting party. In our way, we met- a large canoe in
which were fourteen or fifteen people. One of the firft
queftions they alked, was for Tupia, the perfon I brought
from Otaheite on my former voyage;■ and they feemed to-
exprefs fome concern, when we told them he was dead.
Thefe people made the fame enquiry of Captain Furneaux
when he firft arrived; and, on my return to the fh'ip in the,,
evening, I .was told' that a canoe had been along-lide, the
people in which feemed to be ftrangers, and who alfo enquired
for Tupia. Late in the evening Mr. Gilbert returned,
having founded all round the rock, which he found to be very
fmall and fteep..
Nothing
Nothing worthy of notice happened till the 29th, when Jlly3;
feveral of the natives made us a vifit, and brought with
them a quantity of filh, which they exchanged for nails,
&c. One of thefe people I took over to Motuara, and fhewed
him fome potatoes planted there by Mr. Fanned Matter of
the Adventure. There feemed to be no doubt of their fuc-
ceeding; and the man was fo well pleafed with them, that
he, of .his own accord, began to hoe the earth up about
the plants. We next took him to the other gardens, and
fhewed him the turnips, carrots, and .parfnips ; roots which,
together with the potatoes, will be of more real ufe to them
than all the other articles we had planted. It was eafy to
give them an idea of thefe roots, by comparing them with
fuch as they knew.
Two or three families of thefe people now took up their
abode near us, employing themfelves daily in fifhing, and
fupplying us with the fruits of their labour; the good effects
of which we foon felt. For we were, by no means, fuch
expert fifhe,rs as they are; nor were any of our methods of
filhing equal to theirs.
On the 2d of June, the fhips being nearly ready to put to June.
fea, I fent on fhore, on the Eaft fide of the found, two goats, Wedner'
male and female. The former was fomething more than a
year old; but the latter was much older. She had two fine
kids, fome time before we arrived in Dufky Bay, which
were killedby cold, as hath been already mentioned. Captain
Furneaux alfo put on fhore, in Cannibal Cove, a boar
.and two breeding lows.; fo that wo have reafon to hope this
country will, in time, be flocked with thefe animals, if they
are not deftroyed by the natives before they become wild;
for, afterwards, they will be in no danger. But as the
r 3 \ natives