10 cook's SECOND VOYAGE JUNE 



laden, sent off*, cleared, and laden a second time, be- 

 fore noon ; by which time also the launch had got a 

 full supply of water, and the botanical and shooting 

 parties had all come in, except the surgeon, for whom 

 we could not wait, as the tide was ebbing fast out of 

 the cove ; consequently he was left behind. As there 

 is no getting into the cove with a boat, from between 

 half ebb to half flood, we could get off no water in 

 the afternoon. However, there is a very good land- 

 ing-place without it, near the southern point, where 

 boats can get ashore at all times of the tide ; here 

 some of the officers landed after dinner, where they 

 found the surgeon, who had been robbed of his gun. 

 Having come down to the shore some time after the 

 boats had put off, he got a canoe to bring him on 

 board ; but as he was getting into her, a fellow 

 snatched hold of the gun, and ran off with it. After 

 that no one would carry him to the ship, and they 

 would have stripped him, as he imagined, had he not 

 presented a tooth-pick case, which they, no doubt, 

 thought was a little gun. As soon as I heard of this, 

 I landed at the place above-mentioned, and the few 

 natives who were there fled at my approach. After 

 landing, I went in search of the officers, whom I found 

 in the cove, where we had been in the morning, with a 

 good many of the natives about them. No step had 

 been taken to recover the gun, nor did I think pro- 

 per to take any ; but in this I was wrong. The easy 

 manner of obtaining this gun, which they now, no 

 doubt, thought secure in their possession, encouraged 

 them to proceed in these tricks, as will soon appear. 

 The alarm the natives had caught being soon over, 

 they carried fruit, &c. to the boats, which got pretty 

 well laden before night, when we all returned on 

 board. 



Early in the morning of the 28th, Lieutenant 

 Clerke, with the Master and fourteen or fifteen men, 

 went on shore in the launch for water, I did intend 



