VOYAGE 



TOWARDS 



THE SOUTH POLE, 



AND 



ROUND THE WORLD, 



in 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. 



BOOK III. 



FROM ULIETEA TO NEW ZEALAND. 



CHAP. I. 



PASSAGE FROM ULIETEA TO THE FRTF.Nm.V TST.F.S ; WTTH A 

 DESCRIPTION OF SEVERAL ISLANDS THAT WERE DISCOVERED, 

 AND THE INCIDENTS WHICH HAPPENED IN THAT TRACK. 



vJn the 6th, being the day after leaving Ulietea, at 

 eleven o'clock A. M. we saw land bearing N. W., 

 which, upon a nearer approach, we found to be a low 

 reef island about four leagues in compass, and of a 

 circular form. It is composed of several small patches 

 connected together by breakers, the largest lying on 

 the N. E. part. This is Howe island, discovered by 

 Captain Wallis, who, 1 think, sent his boat to examine 

 it ; and, if I have not been misinformed, found a 

 channel through, within the reef, near the N. W. part. 

 The inhabitants of Ulietea speak of an uninhabited 

 island, about this situation, called by them Mopeha, 

 to which they go at certain seasons for turtle. Per- 

 haps this may be the same ; as we saw no signs of 



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