16:2 cook's SECOND VOYAGE AUG. 



in the whole to-day, as much fresh pork as gave the 

 crews of both ships a meal ; and this in conse- 

 quence of our having this interview with the chief. 



The 24th, early in the morning, we put to sea 

 with a light land-breeze. Soon after w r e were out, 

 we got the wind at west, which blew in squalls, at- 

 tended with heavy showers of rain. Many canoes 

 accompanied us out to sea with cocoa-nuts, and 

 other fruits ; and did not leave us till they had dis- 

 posed of their cargoes. 



The fruits we got here greatly contributed towards 

 the recovery of the Adventure's sick people, Many 

 of them who had been so ill as not to be able to 

 move without assistance, were, in this short time, 

 so far recovered, that they could walk about of them- 

 selves. When we put in here, the Resolution had 

 but one scorbutic man on board, and a marine, who 

 had been long sick, and who died, the second day 

 after our arrival, of a complication of disorders 

 without the least mixture of the scurvy. I left 

 Lieutenant Pickersgill with the cutter behind in the 

 bay, to purchase hogs ; as several had promised to 

 bring some down to-day, and I was not willing to 

 lose them. 



On the 5th, about noon, Mr. Pickersgill returned 

 with eight pigs, which he got at Oaitipiha. He 

 spent the night at Ohedea, and was well entertained 

 by Ereti, the chief of that district. It was remark- 

 able that this chief never once asked after Aotourou ; 

 nor did he take the least notice, when Mr. Pickers- 

 gill mentioned his name. And yet Mr. de Bougain- 

 ville tells us, this is the very chief who presented 

 Aotourou to him ; which makes it the more extra- 

 ordinary that he should neither inquire after him 

 now, nor when he was with us at Matavai ; especially 

 as they believed that we and Mr. Bougainville came 

 from the same country ; that is, from Pretane, for 

 so they called our country. They had not the least 

 knowledge of any other European nation ; nor pro- 



