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CHAP. VIII. 



CAPTAIN FURNEAUx's NARRATIVE OF HIS PROCEEDINGS, IN 

 THE ADVENTURE, FROM THE TIME HE WAS SEPARATED 

 FROM THE RESOLUTION, TO HIS ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND ; 

 INCLUDING LIEUTENANT BURNEY's REPORT CONCERNING 

 THE BOAT'S CREW, WHO WERE MURDERED BY THE INHAB- 

 ITANTS OF QUEEN CHARLOTTE'S SOUND. 



After a passage of fourteen days from Amsterdam, 

 we made the coast of New Zealand near the Table 

 Cape, and stood along-shore till we came as far as 

 Cape Turnagain. The wind then began to blow 

 strong at west, with heavy squalls and rain, which 

 split many of our sails, and blew us off the coast for 

 three days ; in which time we parted company with 

 the Resolution, and never saw her afterwards. 



On the 4th of November, we again got in shore, 

 near Cape Palliser, and were visited by a number of 

 the natives in their canoes, bringing a great quantity 

 of cray-nsh, which we bought of them for nails and 

 Otaheite cloth. The next day it blew hard from 

 W. N.W., which again drove us oft" the coast, and 

 obliged us to bring to for two days ; during which 

 time it blew one continual gale of wind with heavy 

 falls of sleet. By this time our decks were very- 

 leaky ; our beds and bedding wet ; and several of 

 our people complaining of colds ; so that we began 

 to despair of ever getting into Charlotte Sound, or 

 joining the Resolution. 



On the 6th, being to the north of the Cape, the 

 wind at S. W. and blowing strong, we bore away for 

 some bay to complete our water and wood, being in 

 great want of both ; having been at the allowance of 

 one quart of water for some days past ; and even 

 that pittance could not be come at, above six or seven 

 days longer. We anchored in Tolaga Bay on the 

 9th, in latitude 38°01'S. 5 longitude 178*3?' £. 



