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COOK S SECOND VOYAGE AUGUST, 



he spoke to several, lie was at last obliged to go him- 

 self, and by way of revenge, as it was thought, left 

 not a nut on the tree, taking what he wanted him- 

 self, and giving the rest to some of our people. 



When I got them on board, I went with them all 

 over the ship, which they viewed with uncommon 

 surprise and attention. We happened to\ have for 

 their entertainment a kind of pie or pudding made 

 of plantains, and some sort of greens which we had 

 got from one of the natives. On this, and on yams, 

 they made a hearty dinner ; for, as to the salt beef 

 and pork, they would hardly taste them. In the 

 afternoon, having made each of them a present of a 

 hatchet, a spike-nail, and some medals, I conducted 

 them ashore. 



Mr. Forster and I then went over to the other side 

 of the harbour, and having tried, with Fahrenheit's 

 thermometer, the head of one of the hot springs, we 

 found that the mercury rose to 191°. At this time 

 the tide was up within two or three feet of the spring, 

 so that we judged it might, in some degree, be 

 cooled by it. We were mistaken, however ; for, on 

 repeating the experiment next morning, when the 

 tide was out, the mercury rose no higher than 187° ; 

 but, at another spring, where the water bubbled out 

 of the sand from under the rock at the S. W. corner 

 of the harbour, the mercury, in the same thermometer, 

 rose to 202° J, which is but little colder than boiling 

 water. The hot places before mentioned are from 

 about three to four hundred feet perpendicular above 

 these springs, and on the slope of the same ridge 

 with the volcano ; that is, there are no vallies between 

 them but such as are formed in the ridge itself; nor 

 is the volcano on the highest part of the ridge, but 

 on the S. E. side of it. This is, I have been told, 

 contrary to the general opinion of philosophers, who 

 say that volcanos must be on the summits of the 

 highest hills. So far is this from being the case on 

 this island, that some of its hills are more than 



