34 cook's voyage to fee. 



CHAP. III. 



SUSPICIOUS BEHAVIOUR OF THE NATIVES, ON OUR RETURN TO 



KARAKAKOOA BAY. THEFT ON BOARD THE DISCOVERY, AND 



ITS CONSEQUENCES. THE PINNACE ATTACKED, AND THE 



CREW OBLIGED TO QUIT HER. CAPTAIN COOK'S OBSERVA- 

 TIONS ON THE OCCASION. ATTEMPT AT THE OBSERVATORY. 



THE CUTTER OF THE DISCOVERY STOLEN. MEASURES 



TAKEN BY CAPTAIN COOK FOR ITS RECOVERY. GOES ON 



fiiiOKE, TO INVITE THE KING ON BOARD. THE KING, BEING 



STOPPED BY HIS WIFE AND THE CHIEFS, A CONTEST ARISES. 



NEWS ARRIVE OF ONE OF THE CHIEFS BEING KILLED BY 



ONE OF OUR PEOPLE. FERMENT ON THIS OCCASION. ONE 



OF THE CHIEFS THREATENS CAPTAIN COOK, AND IS SHOT 



BY HIM. GENERAL ATTACK BY THE NATIVES. DEATH OF 



CAPTAIN COOK. ACCOUNT OF THE CAPTAIN'S SERVICES, AND 



A SKETCH OF HIS CHARACTER. 



We were employed the whole of the llth and part 

 of the 12th, in getting out the foremast, and sending 

 it with the carpenters, on shore. Besides the damage 

 which the head of the mast had sustained, we found 

 the heel exceedingly rotten, having a large hole up 

 the middle of it, capable of holding four or five cocoa- 

 nuts. It was not, however, thought necessary to 

 shorten it; and fortunately, the logs of red toa-wood, 

 which had been cut at Eimeo, for anchor-stocks, were 

 found fit to replace the sprung parts of the fishes. As 

 these repairs were likely to take up several days, Mr. 

 Bayly and myself got the astronomical apparatus on 

 shore, and pitched our tents on the Moral ; having 

 with us a guard of a corporal and six marines. We 

 renewed our friendly correspondence with the priests, 

 who, for the greater security of the workmen, and 

 their tools, tabooed the place where the mast lay, 

 sticking their wands round it, as before. The sail- 

 makers were also sent on shore, to repair the damages 



