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They, and feveral other Noblemen and Gentlenaen their '^ii^- 



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friends, honoured me with their company at dinner on that v_— ^ — ^ 

 day ; and, on their coming on board, and alfo on their go- 

 ing afliore, we faluted them with feventeen guns, and three 

 cheers. 



With the benevolent view of conveying fome permanent 

 benefit to the inhabitants of Otaheite, and of the other 

 iflands in the Pacific Ocean, whom we might happen to 

 vifit, his Majefty having commanded fome ufeful animals 

 to be carried out, we took on board, on the loth, a bull, Monday 1 01 

 two cows witli their calves, and fome flieep, with hay and 

 corn for their fubfiftence ; intending to add to thefe, other 

 ufeful animals, when I fliould arrive at the Cape of Good 

 Hope. 



I was alfo, from the fame laudable motives, furnifhed 

 with a fufficient quantity of fuch of our European garden 

 feeds, as could not fail to be a valuable prefentto ournewly- 

 difcovered iflands, by adding frefli fupplies of food to their 

 own vegetable produ<ftions. 



Many other articles, calculated to improve the condition 

 of our friends in the other hemifphere in various ways, 

 were, at the fame time, delivered to us by order of the 

 Board of Admiralty. And both fliips were provided with 

 a proper aflbrtment of iron tools and trinkets, as the means 

 of enabling us to traffic, and to cultivate a friendly inter- 

 courfe with the inhabitants of fuch new countries as we 

 might be fortunate enough to meet with. 



The fame humane attention was extended to oiir own 

 wants. Some additional cloathing, adapted to a cold cli- 

 mate, was ordered for our crews: and nothing was denied to 

 us that could be fuppofed in the leafl; conducive to health, 

 or even to convenience. 



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