THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 



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CHAP. VI. 



Pajfage from Kerguelens to Van Diemens lJand> — Ar- 

 rival in Adventure Bay, — Incidents there,- — Interviews 

 'with the Natives. — Their Perfons and Drefs defcribed.-^ 

 Account of their Behaviour, — Table of the Longitude^ 

 Latitude^ and Variation. — Mr, Anderfo7ts Obfervatio?is 

 on the natural ProduEiions of the Country^ on the Inha- 

 hita?itSt a7id their Language, 



AFTER leaving Kerguelen's Land, I fleered Eaft by 1776. 

 North, intending, in obedience to my inftrucflions, to ,/^-!^"!_^^ 

 touch next at New Zealand ; to recruit our water, to take in 

 ■wood, and to make hay for the cattle. Their number, by 

 this time, had been confiderably diminiflied j two young 

 bulls, one of the heifers, two rams, and feveral of the 

 goats having of late died, while we were employed in ex- 

 ploring this defolate coaft. 



The 31ft, in the morning, being the day after we flood TuefJayji. 

 out to fea, we had feveral obfervations of the fun and moon. 

 Their refulcs gave the longitude 72° 33' 36" Eaft, The time- 

 keeper, in this fituation, gave 72° 38' 15". Thefe obferva- 

 tions were the more ufeful, as we had not been able to get 

 any for fome time before, and they now ferved to afTure us 

 that no material error had crept into the time keeper. 



On the I ft of Tanuarv, beins then in the latitude of 48° ^^'nr- 



•'•''" ' . January. 



41' South, longitude 76° 50' Eall, the variation was 30° 39 Wednef/i. 



N 2 Weft 5 



