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old friends came on board to take their leave of us, 

 and afterwards left the cove with all their effects ; 

 but those who had been out on the late expedition 

 remained ; and some of the gentlemen having visited 

 them, found the heart still sticking on the canoe, and 

 the intestines lying on the beach ; but the liver and 

 lungs were now wanting. Probably they had eaten 

 them after the carcase was all gone. 



On the 25th, early in the morning, we weighed, 

 with a small breeze, out of the cove which carried us 

 no farther than between Motuara and Long Island, 

 where we were obliged to anchor ; but presently after 

 a breeze springing up at north, we weighed again, 

 turned out of the Sound, and stood over for Cape 

 Teerawhitte. 



During our stay in the Sound we were plentifully 

 supplied with fish, procured from the natives at a 

 very easy rate ; and besides the vegetables our own 

 gardens afforded, we found every where plenty of 

 scurvy-grass and celery, which I caused to be dressed 

 every day for all the hands. By this means they had 

 been mostly on a fresh diet for the three preceding 

 months ; and at this time we had neither a sick nor 

 scorbutic man on board. It is necessary to mention, 

 for the information of others, that we had now 

 some pork on board, salted at Ulietea, and as good 

 as any I ever ate. The manner in which we cured 

 it was thus : In the cool of the evening, the hogs 

 were killed, dressed, cut up, the bones cut out, and 

 the flesh salted while it was yet hot. The next morn- 

 ing we gave it a second salting, packed it into a cask, 

 and put to it a sufficient quantity of strong pickle. 

 Great care is to be taken that the meat be well 

 covered with pickle, otherwise it will soon spoil. 



The morning before we sailed I wrote a memoran- 

 dum, setting forth the time we last arrived, the day 

 we sailed, the route I intended to take, and such 

 other information as I thought necessary for Captain 

 Furneaux, in case he should put into the sound j and 



