A 



VOYAGE 



T O T HE 



PACIFIC OCEAN. 



BOOK II. 



From leaving New Zealand, to our Arrival at 

 Otaheite, or the Society Iflands. 



C H A P. I. 



Profecuiion of the Voyage, — Behaviour of the Two Nem 

 Zealanders on board, — Unfavourable Winds. — A71 

 Jfand called Mangeea difcovered. — The Coafl of it 

 examined. — TranfaBions with the Natives, — An Ac- 

 count of their Perfons^ Drefs^ and Canoe. — Defer iption 

 of the If and, — A Specimeii of the Language, — Df- 

 foftion of the Inhabitants, 



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N the 25th, at ten o'clock in the morning, a light 1777. 

 breeze fpringing up at North Weft by Weft, we ^ '^"^'^' 



weighed, ftood out of the Sound, and made fail through TueWay z^. 

 the ftrait, with the Difcovery in company. We had hardly 

 got the length of Cape Tierawhitte, when the wind took 

 us aback at South Eaft:. It continued in this quarter till 



two 



