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Original Letteit, wi(h Auiug-iuph.^. 



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with every thiug that is found at any 

 of the former, ('iiltivatiou seems thece 

 to liave come to a £(rcatcr degrw of le- 

 gulaiity, as all their plaufations were 

 enclosed withia Bami)oo Hedges, and 

 regular roads led up to the very moun- 

 taius; at their leaving these islands 

 they again appointed Charlotte Soiiud 

 their readesvouz. In u.^\ag into Cuolc's 

 Straight round Cape PalUser, the wind 

 proved very nufavourable. The Reso- 

 iutii)U being the better sailing ship, got 

 in on the 29th Nov. last, but the Ad- 

 venture was obi iged to bear away and 

 run down to the northward, and at last 

 got into Tolaya, where the inhabitants 

 seemed to he verj'^ happy in seeing 

 Jhe It, iuquiring after Tabaya and lis 

 all. After three or foiir days stay in 

 tlmt place, Capt Fourueaux again 

 steered to the .southward, attemptiuii to 

 get into C'harhittc Sound, but stnaig 

 .soHth-wester.s kept him six weeks. a 

 cniisiug : at last when he came in, he 

 was informed by a letter in bottle, that 

 C'aj)t. Cook had left the phce four 

 days l)efore, and had proceeded south- 

 M'ard without appointing any new plaoe 

 of lendesvouz, only saying, if i»o!hing 

 jntwfered, he would, in the March fol- 

 lowing look out for Davis's Laud. 

 Upon this Capt. Founieaux resolved to 

 jwepare liiinself for a search after lands 

 to the southward of the South Seas. 

 During his stay in Cliarlotte Soimd 

 he was unlucky enough to lose U'a of 

 }iis people by the following aiu-ident. 

 He sent out a ijoat with an acting 

 Lieutenant {Mr. Rowo,) a midship- 

 man, the ship's steward, his own ser- 

 vaHf, and his common men, to gather 

 xvild .sellery. They were sent out on 

 tlie Saturday morning, not returning 

 that day nor the Sunday morning, 

 another Iwiat was sent out in search 

 of them, the boat lauded at two heppas 

 fvilhige.*) where the people sse:):ed 

 very friendly, hut at last, when th 

 came into Grass-cove, tliiy soon saw 

 what the fnte of their comrades had 

 been. They first found in a canoe a 

 hand or (wo, which they well knew, 

 &|id afterwards a great many baskets 

 full of lately-roasted human fle-.h, some 

 ctiU waoa. 1 hey also found the en- 

 trail&of the killed people, and at lapt 

 saw the inhabita7!fs upon a little emi- 

 nence, rejoicing around a large fire. A t 

 last the inhabitants came down to the 

 chore, wlien they fired several vollies 

 upon them, and killed many ; the dusk 

 «f the evening prijvcntetl them (mm 

 doingjiny thinj; more. Before the rea- 

 MoNTiiLV Mac. No. 35.1. 



t'outre,andeven thedayof assassiuafion. 

 the inhabitants had liehaved very welU 

 80 oue siiould imagine the rest of the 

 inhabitants of Charlotte Sound knew 

 nothing of what was done in Grass- 

 cove. In all probability a suddenly 

 provoked quarrel. Upon leaving New 

 Zealand, Captain Fourneaux drew up 

 to the southward, and between the lat. 

 55<^ and 60' sailed eastward towards 

 Cape Home, and after he had in vain 

 looked out for St. Sebastian's Laud., with 

 the Bay of Chrysaline, lie proceeded 

 again east, and run many degrees of 

 longitude in the latitiule ofBouvett's 

 land of Clrcnmcisiun., for fear that they 

 formerly had not been west enough, 

 but all without success. He then made 

 the best of his way to the Cape of Good 

 Hope, and arrivetl safe at Spithead 

 about two days ago. From tlie above 

 you can easily find that Captain Four- 

 neaux has made a voyage much to the 

 satisfaction of every body. He has 

 circumnavigated the globe in highei* 

 latitudes than any ship before has been. 

 He has proved that there is no large 

 southern continent or laud. He has 

 also proved that IMons. Bouvett's Laud 

 of Circumcision was in all probability 

 nothing but ice. It is also certain that 

 the last French discoveries, made by 

 Mons. Fremarce de Cargeullan, Mons. 

 Morieu, and Mons. Croyet,and by them 

 described as a large land, called La 

 France Meridionale, can be nothing 

 hut small islands, if any thing but ice. 

 Besides the ice they saw to the S. of 

 the Cape of Good Hope, Capt. Four- 

 neaux saw a good deal of ice to the 

 southward of the south seas. All the 

 ice they have seen was tloatiug ice, and 

 chiefly very high ice mountains. They 

 have twice seen the aurora austjalis. 

 Your sincere friend. 



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a^n f/c^OL 71 ^i 



London, July 17th, 1774. 



Hertford, Jug. 19, 1774. 



Dear Sir, — in my last letter, 

 wherein I gave you a complete account of 

 what has been done by Captain Four- 

 neau.x during the last South Sea expe- 

 dition, I mentioned that he has brought 

 with him a native of one of the Society 

 Islands ; I will now give you au account 

 of him: — his name is Omai; he was 

 born in Ulaietea, where his father was 

 a man of considerable landed property ; 

 but about twelve years ago the king of 

 Bola-bola conquered that part of Ula- 

 ietea where Omai's father had his es- 

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