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davs before they had taken, killed, and eat a boat's crew of 

 their enemies, or strangers, for I believe they look upon all 

 strangers as enemies. [Pleasant for the listening visitors.] 

 . . . We told one of them that it was not the bone of a 

 man, but that of a dog ; but he, with great fervency, took 

 hold of his forearm and told us again that it was that bone, 

 and to convince us that they had eat the flesh he took hold 

 of the flesh of his own arm with his teeth and made signs of 

 eating." — (Wharton's edition of Cook's Journal, p. 183.) 



Another log, never yet published, and now in Mr. Alex- 

 ander Turnbull's library in Wellington, says, " One of them 

 pick'd a mau's arm-bone, quite unconcerned, before us." 



On the second voyage Cook named Adventure Bay from 

 the second ship of his little squadron, the one commanded by 

 Tobias Furneaux. This is not marked in any of the charts 

 published by him. "What is that cape called?" I asked, 

 as we passed Adventure Bay. " Edgecombe Head," was the 

 answer. This was the sergeant of marines on the "Endea- 

 vour." Cook described him as " very much of a gentleman " ; 

 and on Cook's recommendation, having obtained a commis- 

 sion, he was lieuteuant of marines on the " Resolution " in 

 the second voyage. The corresponding point is Marine Head, 

 at the other side of the entrance to Adventure Bay. 



Adventure Bay was the scene of the slaughter of the boat's 

 crew from the " Adventure " in the second voyage, at a time 

 when Furneaux had been unable to find Cook. The English- 

 men had been eaten by the Maoris. Lieutenant James Burney 

 found out the grim truth when he was sent ashore to in- 

 vestigate. The original of Lieutenant Burney's report is in 

 the same valuable library in Wellington. Allusion is made 

 to the story in Gibbon,* and doubtless fear of cannibalism was 

 the reason why New Zealand was not earlier occupied. 



When the "Endeavour" had been from Cape Turnagain 

 round the north of New Zealand, and had come southward 

 on the western side as far as the strait, Cook desired to find 

 some quiet bay where he could careen her, for her bottom 

 was foul. He anchored in what he calls "a very snug cove" 

 in Queen Charlotte Sound, which on his chart he marked as 

 " Ship Cove." There he found "excellent water, and, as to 

 wood, the land here is one intire forest." No less than 

 300 lb. of different sorts of fish were caught, and all seemed 



* " If in the neighbourhood of the commercial and literary Town of 

 Glasgow a race of cannibals has really existed, we may contemplate in 

 the period of the Scottish history the opposite extremes of savage and 

 civilised life. Such reflections tend to enlarge the circle of our ideas, 

 and to encourage the pleasing hope that New Zealand may produce in 

 some future age the Hume of the Southern Hemisphere." — (Gibbon, 

 "Decline and Fall," chap, xxv.) 



