1774- different from that where Mr. Wales had placed his. It was
» » therefore now no longer to be doubted, that the Adventure
Wednef. 19. k a(i been in this Cove after we had left it.
Thurfday 20. Next day, winds foutherly; hazy cloudy weather. Every
body went to work at their refpeflive employments, one of
which was to caulk the fhip’s fides, a thing much wanted.
The feams were paid with putty, made with cook’s fat and
chalk; the gunner happening to have a quantity o f the latter
on board.
Friday 21. The 21ft, wind foutherly, with continual rains.
Saturday 22. The weather being fair in the. afternoon of the 22d, accompanied
by the botanifts, I vifited our gardens on Motuara,
which we found almoft in a flate of nature, having been
wholly neglected by the inhabitants. Neverthelefs, many
articles were in a flourifhing condition, and fhewed how
well they liked the foil in which they were planted. None
of the natives having yet made their appearance, we made
a fire on the point of the ifland ; in hopes, if they faw the
fmoke, they might be induced to come to us.
Monday 24. Nothing remarkable happened till the 24th, when, in the
morning, two canoes were feen coming down the found;
but as Loon as they perceived the fhip, they retired behind
a point on the weft fide. After breakfaft I went in a boat to
look for them ; and as we proceeded along the fhore, we fhot
feveral birds. The report of the mufquets gave notice of
our approach, and the natives difcovered themfelves in Shag
Cove by hallooing to u s ; but as we drew near to their habitations,
they all fled to the woods, except two or three men,
who flood on a rifing ground near the fhore, with their arms
in their hands. The moment we landed, they knew us.
J°y
Joy then took place of fear; and the reft of the natives hurried
out of the woods, and embraced us over and over again, 1---- .---->
, Monday 24.
leaping and fkipping about like madmen; but I obferved ,
that they would not fuffer fome woriien, whom we faw at a
diftance, to come near us. After we had made them prefents
of hatchets, knives, and what elfe we had with us, they gave
iis in return alarge quantity of fifh, which they had juft caught.
There were only a few amongft them whofe faces we could
recognife; and on our afking why they were afraid of us,
and. inquiring for fome of our old acquaintances by
name, they talked much about killing, which was fo
varioufly underftood by us, that we could gather nothing
from i t ; fo that, after a fhort flay, we took leave, and went
bn board.
Next morning early, our friends, according to a promife Tuefday 25,
they had made us the preceding evening, paying us a vifit,
brought with them a quantity o f fine fifh, which they exchanged
for Otaheitean cloth, &c. and then returned to their
habitations.
On the 26th, we got into the after-hold four boat-load of wednef. 26.
fhingle ballaft, and ftruck down fix guns, keeping only fix on
our deck. Our good friends the natives, having brought us
a plentiful fupply o f fifh, afterwards went on fhore to the
tents, and informed our people there, that a fhip like ours
had been lately loft in the Strait; that fome of the people
got on fhore; and that the natives ftole their cloaths, &c. for
which feveral were fhbt; that afterwards, when they could
fire no longer, the natives having got the better, killed them
with their Patapatoos, and eat them ; but that they themfelves
had no hand in the affair, which, they Laid, happened at
Vanna Aroa, near Teerawhitte, on the other fide of the
V o l . II. X Strait.