

A VOYAGE TO 



'779- after receiving a blow on the head from a flonc, which had 



February. . , ,, 



« , 1 nearly fent him to the bottom, he caught the man by the 



hair, and brought him fafe off*. 



Our people continued for fome time to keep up a conflant 

 fire from the boats (which, during the whole tranfaclion, 

 were not more than twenty yards from the land), in order 

 to afford their unfortunate companions, if any of them 

 fliould Mill remain alive, an opportunity of efcaping. Thcfe 

 efforts, feconded by a few guns, that were fired at the fame 

 time, from the Refolution, having forced the natives at lad 

 to retire, a fmall boat, manned by five of our young mid- 

 fhipmen, pulled toward the fliore, where they faw the bo- 

 dies, without' any figns of life, lying on the ground ; but 

 judging it dangerous to attempt to bring them off, with fo 

 fmall a force, and their ammunition being nearly expended, 

 they returned to the fhips, leaving them in poffellion of the 

 inlanders, together with ten {lands of arms. 



As foon as the general confternation, which the news of 

 this calamity occafioncd throughout both crews, had a little 

 fubfidcd, their attention was called to our party at the Moral, 



* From the annexed plate, the reader will be enabled to form a very clear and 

 diitinc~t idea of the fituntion of the feveral places mentioned in this and the three lad 

 chapters. On the fartheft point of land, beyond the fhips, to the left, is fituated the 

 Village of Kowrowa, where Captain Cook was killed. The pile of ftones, with a 

 building on the top, at the other extremity of the plate, reprefents the Moral, where 

 the oblervatories were cicfted. Behind the grove of cocoa-nut trees, flood the 

 cloiflcrs of the pricfts. To the left of thefe, is part of the village of Kakooa, which 



i burnt down on the 17th of February ; and, farther on, amongft the rocks, at the 

 end of the beach, is the well where wc watered. The ftcep high ground, above 

 the beach, is the bill from which the natives annoyed the waterers, by rolling down 

 ftoncs. 



In the fore ground, a native is fwimming on one of the boards, as defcribed in the 

 feventh chapter. The canoes, and the general air of the people, are reprefented with 

 ike gfeatefi truth and fidelity. 



where 



