GO CAPTAIN COOK'S VOYAGES 



way ornamented. Upon this shore iron sand is in plenty to 

 be found, which proves that there are mines of that metaJ up 

 the country, it being brought down by a rivulet from 

 thence. 



On the 18th, in the morning, the Endeavour steered 

 between the main and an island, which seemed very fertile, 

 and as extensive as Ulietea. Many canoes, filled with 

 Indians, came alongside, and the Indians sung their war 

 song ; the Endeavour's people paying them no attention, 

 they threw a volley of stones, and then paddled away ; but 

 they presently returned and renewed their insults. How- 

 ever, upon a musket being fired at one of their boats, they 

 made a precipitate retreat. 



In the evening they cast anchor, and early the next 

 morning they sailed up an inlet. The Endeavour was now 

 in a bay, called by the natives Ooahaouragee, and Captain 

 Cook, accompanied by Mr. Banks, Dr. Solander, and others, 

 went in the boats to examine it, and did not return till 

 next morning. At the entrance of a wood they met with 

 a tree ninety-eight feet high from the ground to the first 

 branch, quite straight, and nineteen feet in circumference ; 

 and they found still larger trees of the same kind as they 

 advanced into the wood. The captain called this river 

 Thames, being not unlike our river of that name. 



The ship, at their departure, was surrounded with canoes, 

 which induced Mr. Banks to remain on board, that he 

 might trade with the Indians. Though the traders were 

 honest in their dealing, there was one amongst them who 

 took a fancy to a half-minute glass, but was detected in 

 secreting it, and he was punished with the cat-o'-nine tails. 

 The other Indians endeavoured to save him from this 

 punishment ; but being opposed, they got their arms from 

 the canoes, and some of the people in them attempted to 

 get on board. Mr. Banks and Tupia now coming upon 

 deck, the Indians applied to Tupia, but he having no 

 influence upon Mr. Hicks, the commanding officer, informed 

 them of the nature of the offender's intended punishment, 

 which pacified them, as they imagined he was going to 

 be put to death. 



On the 23rd, they tided it down the river, and on the 

 24th, steered along the shore, between the islands and the 

 main, and in the evening anchored in an open bay, in about 

 fourteen fathoms water. Here they caught a large number 

 of fish of the bream kind ; from which the captain named 

 this Bream Bay. No inhabitants were visible ; but from 

 the fires perceived at night, the gentlemen concluded it 

 was inhabited. 



The 26th, Captain Cook continued his course slowly along 



