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C i i A P. IX.
.Accounts o f Otaheite f i l l imperfell.— The prevailing Winds.— Beauty
■ of the Country.— Cultivation.— Natural Curiofties .— The Perfons
■■of the Natives— Difeafes.— General Character.— Love of Plea-
■ fure.— Language.— Surgery and Phyfic.— Articles o f F o o d .-E f-
. feB s of dr inking Ava.— Times and Manner o f Eating.— Connections
•with the Females.— Circumcif on.— Syfiem o f Religion.— Notions
. . about,the Soul ■ and .a future Life.—.Various Siiperfitions .•—Tradi-
. tions about the-Cr-eaHon.—-An* -hifiorieal - Legend.— Honours -paid to
, the King.— DiftinBion of Ranks.— Punijhment o f Crimes-.—-Pecu-
' liarities o f the neighbouring Ifands.— Names of their Gods.— Names
..of I f ands they vifit.— Extent of. their Navigation. I 4 1
iC H A'P. X.
.'Progrefs o f the Voyage, sifter leaving the Society I f ands.— Chrifmas
- I f and ¿¡/covered, and‘ Station- o f the Ships there— Boats fent
afhore.— Great Succefi in catching Turtle.— An Eclipfe-of-the Sun
. obferved,— Difirefs .of'-two.Seamen, who had lofl their Way.—.In- ■
fcription left in a Bottle.— Account o f the I f and.— Its Soil.— Trees
and Plants.— Birds.— Its Size.— Form.— Situation.— Anchoring-
ground. „I7g
C II A P. XT.
’.Some I f raids difcovered.— Account of the Natives o f AtoSi, who come
off to the Ships, and their Behaviour on going on board.— One o f
. them killed.— Precautions vfed to.prevent Intercourfe with the
Females.— A Watering-place found.— Reception upon landing.— Ex-
curfion into the Country.— A Morai vifiteil and defcribed:— Graves
of the Chiefs, and o f the human Sacrifices, there buried,— Another
. " I f and, called Oneehow, vifit ed.— Ceremonies performed by the
Natives, who. go ¡off to the Ships.— Reafonsfor believing that they
are Cannibals.— A Party fent afhore, who. remain two Nights.—•
..Account of what paffed on landing.— The Ships leave the'Ifands,
and proceed, to. the North. . ioq
C H A P . XU.
The-Situation of the I f ands' now difcovered— Their Names— Chlled '■
the Sandwich -Ifands— Atooi• defcribed.— The SHI.—Climate.— Vegetable
Produ&ions,'—Birds:— Fijh:— -Domefiic Animals.—Perfons •
o f the Inhabitants— Their- Difpofition— Drefi— Ornaments.— Habitations.—
Food.—Cookery.— Amufiments. — Manufactures.— Work-
ing-tools.— Knowledge o f Iron accounted for,— Canoes.— Agriculture.
— Account o f one o f their Chiefs.— Weapons— Cufloms agreeing with
thofe o f Tongataboo, and. P Language ike fame—
Extent o f this Nation throughout the Pacific'OCean.— RefeBions on ■
the ufefuLSituation o f the Sandwich I f ands c- \ s s i -
C II A P. XIII.:
Qbfervations made at the Sandwich Iftands, on the'Longitude, Variation
o f the. Compafs, and Tides.— Profecution of the Voyage.—Remarks
on the Mildne/s o f the Weather, -as fa r as the Latitude 44
North.— Paucity o f Sea Birds, in-. the-Northern Hemifphere— -
Small Sea Animals defcribed— Arrival on the. Coafl of America.—
Appearance-of , the. Country— Unfavourable Winds, and boiferous •
Weather— Remarks on Martin de Ag.uillar’s River, and Juan de
Fuca's pretended Strait.■‘*7An Inlet dbfeovered,' where -the -Ships -
anchor.'—Behaviour o f the: Natives. ■ - 353-
B O O K IV.
Tranfadions amongft the Natives.of:North America;
Difcoyeries along that Goaft and the Eaftern Extremity
o f A fia , Northward.to Icy C ape; and Return Southward
to the Sandwich lilands. .
C H A P. I.
The Ships, enter the Sound,' and moor in ’a Harbour— Intercourfe with
the Natives.— Articles. hroughp to, barter.— Thefts committed— The
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