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their unnatural cannibalism, tried to conceal it, and to 

 exculpate themselves from the charge. They frequently 

 mentioned Tupia, and when they told them he was dead, 

 some of them seemed to be much concerned, and, as well as 

 they could understand them, wanted to know whether he 

 was killed, or if he died a natural death. By these 

 questions, they are the same tribe Captain Cook saw. In 

 the afternoon, they returned again with fish and fern roots, 

 which they sold for nails and other trifles. 



" Next morning the natives returned, to the number of 

 nearly sixty, with their chief at their head (as was supposed) 

 in five double canoes. They gave their implements of war, 

 stone hatchets, and clothes, for nails and old bottles, on 

 which they put a great value. A number of the men came 

 on board, and it was with some difficulty they got them out 

 of the ship by fair means ; but on the appearance of a 

 musket with a fixed bayonet, they all went into their canoes 

 very quickly. 



" On the llth of May, they felt two severe shocks of an 

 earthquake, but received no kind of damage. On the 17th 

 they had the pleasure of seeing the Resolution off the mouth 

 of the Sound." 



Such is a brief abstract of Captain Furneaux's trans- 

 actions during an absence of fourteen weeks. 



Captain Cook knowing that scurvy grass, celery, and 

 other vegetables, were to be found in Queen Charlotte's 

 Sound, gave orders that they should be boiled, with wheat 

 and portable broth, every morning for breakfast ; and with 

 pease and broth for dinner ; knowing from experience, that 

 these vegetables, thus dressed, are extremely beneficial in 

 removing all manner of scorbutic complaints. 



In the morning of the 20th, he sent ashore the only ewe 

 and ram remaining, of those which he had brought from the 

 Cape of Good Hope, with an intent to leave in this country. 

 Soon after he visited the several gardens Captain Furneaux 

 had caused to be made and planted with various articles ; 

 all of which were in a flourishing state, and, if attended to 

 by the natives, would prove of great utility to them. 



On the 22nd, in the morning, the ewe and ram he had with 

 so much care and trouble brought to this place, were both 

 found dead ; occasioned, as was supposed, by eating some 

 poisonous plant. Thus his hopes of stocking this country 

 with a breed of sheep were blasted in a moment. About 

 noon they were visited, for the first time since they arrived, 

 by some of the natives, who dined with them ; and it was 

 not a little they devoured. 



In the morning of the 24th, they met a large canoe, in 

 whioh were fourteen or fifteen people. One of the first 



