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same diligent attention to the other senses may re- 

 ceive the same notices from them ; let it, therefore, 

 be remembered, as an encouragement to persevering 

 diligence, and a principle of general use to mankind, 

 that he who does all he can will ever effect much 

 more than is generally thought to be possible. 



Among other Indians that had visited us, there 

 were some from a neighbouring island which they 

 called EiMEO or Imao, the same to which Captain 

 Wallis had given the name of the Duke of York's 

 island, and they gave us an account of no less than 

 two-and-twenty islands that lay in the neighbourhood 

 of Otaheite. 



As the day of observation now approached, I 

 determined, in consequence of some hints which 

 had been given me by Lord Morton, to send out two 

 parties to observe the transit from other situations ; 

 hoping, that if we should fail at Otaheite, they might 

 have better success. We were, therefore, now busily 

 employed in preparing our instruments, and in- 

 structing such gentlemen in the use of them as I 

 intended to send out. 



On Thursday the 1st of June, the Saturday fol- 

 lowing being the day of the transit, I dispatched 

 Mr. Gore in the long boat to Imao, with Mr. Monk- 

 house and Mr. Sporing, a gentleman belonging to 

 Mr. Banks, Mr. Green having furnished them with 

 proper instruments. Mr. Banks himself thought fit 

 to go upon this expedition, and several natives, par- 

 ticularly Tubourai Tamaide and Tomio, were also 

 of the party. Very early on the Friday morning, I 

 sent Mr. Hicks with Mr. Clerk and Mr. Petersgill, 

 the master's mates, and Mr. Saunders, one of the 

 midshipmen, in the pinnace to the eastward, with 

 orders to fix on some convenient spot, at a distance 

 from our principal observatory, where they also 

 might employ the instruments with which they had 

 been furnished for the same purpose. 



The long-boat not having been got ready till 



