240 cook's VOYAGE TO FEB. 



BOOK II. 



FROM LEAVING NEW ZEALAND TO OUR ARRIVAL AT 

 OTAHEITE, OR THE SOCIETY ISLANDS. 



CHAP. I. 



PROSECUTION OF THE VOYAGE. BEHAVIOUR OF THE TWO 



NEW ZEALANDERS ON BOARD. UNFAVOURABLE WINDS. 



AN ISLAND CALLED MANGEEA DISCOVERED. THE COAST OF 



IT EXAMINED. TRANSACTIONS WITH THE NATIVES. AN 



ACCOUNT OF THEIR PERSONS, DRESS, AND CANOE, DE- 

 SCRIPTION OF THE ISLAND. A SPECIMEN OF THE LAN- 

 GUAGE. DISPOSITION OF THE INHABITANTS. 



On the 25th, at ten o'clock in the morning, a light 

 breeze springing up at N. W. by W., we weighed, 

 stood out of the Sound, and made sail through the 

 strait, with the Discovery in company. We had 

 hardly got the length of Cape Tierawhitte, when the 

 wind took us aback at S. E. It continued in this 

 quarter till two o'clock the next morning, when we 

 had a few hours' calm. After which we had a breeze 

 at N. ; but here it fixed not long, before it veered to 

 the E., and after that to the S. At length, on the 

 27th at eight o'clock in the morning, we took our 

 departure from Cape Palliser, which, at this time, 

 bore W., seven or eight leagues distant. We had a 

 fine gale, and I steered E. by N. 



We had no sooner lost sight of the land than our 

 two New Zealand adventurers, the sea-sickness they 

 now experienced giving a turn to their reflections, 

 repented heartily of the step they had taken. All 

 the soothing encouragement we could think of, 



