3i0 cook's first voyage NOV. 



cried out, in their language, " Come on shore, and 

 we will kill you all :" Well, said Tupia, but why 

 should you molest us while we are at sea ? as we do 

 not wish to fight, we shall not accept your challenge 

 to come on shore ; and here there is no pretence for 

 quarrel, the sea being no more your property than 

 the ship. This eloquence of Tupia, though it greatly 

 surprised us, having given him no hints for the argu- 

 ments he used, had no effect upon our enemies, who 

 very soon renewed their battery : a musket was then 

 fired through one of their boats, and this was an ar- 

 gument of sufficient weight, for they immediately 

 fell astern and left us. 



From the point, of which we were now abreast, 

 the land trends W. ^ S. near a league, and then 

 S. S. E. as far as we could see ; and, besides the 

 islands that lay without us, we could see land round 

 by the S. W. as far as N. W. ; but whether this was 

 the main or islands, we could not then determine : 

 the fear of losing the main, however, made me re- 

 solve to follow its direction. With this view, I hauled 

 round the point, and steered to the southward, but 

 there being light airs all round the compass, we made 

 but little progress. 



About one o'clock, a breeze sprung up at east, 

 which afterwards came to N. E. and we steered along 

 the shore S. by E. and S. S. E. having from twenty- 

 five to eighteen fathom. 



At about half an hour after seven in the evening, 

 having run seven or eight leagues since noon, I an- 

 chored in twenty- three fathom, not choosing to run 

 any farther in the dark, as I had now land on both 

 sides, forming the entrance of a straight, bay, or 

 river, lying S. by E. for on that point we could see 

 no land. 



At day-break, on the 19th, the wind being still 

 favourable, we weighed and stood with an easy sail 

 up the inlet, keeping nearest to the east side. In a 

 short time, two large canoes came off to us from the 



