^18 cook's voyage to fee. 



same year I was there in the Endeavour, or else 

 Monsieur Marion du Fresne's, who was in the Bay 

 of Islands, on the same coast, a few years after; 

 but he assured us that he was not mistaken, either 

 as to the time or as to the place of this ship's ar- 

 rival; and that it was well known to every body 

 about Queen Charlotte's Sound and Teerawitte. He 

 said, that the captain of her, during his stay here, 

 cohabited with a woman of the country; and that 

 she had a son by him still living, and about the age 

 of Kokoa ; who, though not born then, seemed to be 

 equally well acquainted with the story. We were 

 also informed by Taweiharooa, that this ship first 

 introduced the venereal disease amongst the New 

 Zealanders. I wish that subsequent visiters from 

 Europe may not have their share of guilt, in leaving 

 so dreadful a remembrance of them amongst this 

 unhappy race. The disorder now is but too common 

 here, though they do not seem to regard it, saying, 

 that its effects are not near so pernicious at present 

 as they were at its first appearance. The only 

 method, as far as I ever heard, that they make use 

 of as a remedy, is by giving the patient the use of a 

 sort of hot bath, which they produce by the steam of 

 certain green plants laid over hot stones. 



I regretted much that we did not hear of this ship 

 while we were in the Sound; as, by means of Omai, 

 we might have had full and correct information 

 about her from eye-witnesses. For Taweiharooa's 

 account was only from what he had been told, and 

 therefore liable to many mistakes. I have not the 

 least doubt, however, that his testimony may so far 

 be depended upon, as to induce us to believe that a 

 ship really had been at Teerawitte prior to my arrival 

 in the Endeavour, as it corresponds with what I had 

 formerly heard. For in the latter end of 1773, the 

 second time I visited New Zealand, during my last 

 voyage, when we were continually making enquiries 



