iJO COOK'S SECOND VOYAGE APRIL, 



Early in the morning on the 6th, a shooting party, 

 made up of the officers, went to Goose Cove, the 

 place where I was the 2d ; and myself, accompanied 

 by the two Mr. Forsters and Mr. Hodges, set out to 

 continue the survey of the bay. My attention was 

 directed to the north side, where I discovered a fine 

 capacious cove, in the bottom of which is a fresh 

 water river ; on the west side several beautiful small 

 cascades ; and the shores are so steep that a ship 

 might lie near enough to convey the water into her 

 by a hose. In this cove we shot fourteen ducks, 

 beside other birds, which occasioned my calling it 

 Duck Cove. 



As we returned in the evening, we had a short in- 

 terview with three of the natives, one man and two 

 women. They were the first that discovered them- 

 selves on the N. E. point of Indian Island, named so 

 on this occasion. We should have passed without 

 seeing them, had not the man hallooed to us. He 

 stood with his club in his hand upon the point of a 

 rock, and behind him, at the skirts of the wood, stood 

 the two women, with each of them a spear. The 

 man could not help discovering great signs of fear 

 when we approached the rock with our boat. He, 

 however, stood firm ; nor did he move to take up 

 some things we threw him ashore* At length I 

 landed, went up, and embraced him ; and presented 

 him with such articles as 1 had about me, which at 

 once dissipated his fears. Presently after, we were 

 joined by the two women, the gentlemen that were 

 with me, and some of the seamen. After this, we 

 spent about half an hour in chit-chat, little under- 

 stood on either side, in which the youngest of the two 

 women bore by far the greatest share. This oc- 

 casioned one of the seamen to say, that women did 

 not want tongue in any part of the world. We pre- 

 sented them with fish and fowl which we had in our 

 boat ; but these they threw into the boat again, giving 

 us to understand that such things they wanted not. 



