132 CAPTAIN COOK'S VOYAGES 



the other with a stone hatchet in his hand, mounted the 

 arm-chests on the poop, and there, in a kind of bravado, 

 bid those enemies defiance ; while the others, who were on 

 board, took to their canoe and went ashore, probably to 

 secure the women and children. 



However, they came on board, and were very peaceable. 

 A trade soon commenced between the sailors and them. 

 It was not possible to hinder the former from selling the 

 clothes from off their backs for the merest trifles. This 

 caused Captain Cook to dismiss the strangers sooner than 

 he would have done. 



June 4th, they spent their royal master's birth-day in 

 festivity ; having the company of Captain Furneaux and 

 all his officers. Double allowance enabled the seamen to 

 share in the general joy. 



During their stay in the Sound, Captain Cook observed 

 that this second visit made to this country had not mended 

 the morals of the natives of either sex. The men were 

 become more mercenary ; and the women less virtuous. 



On the 7th of June, at four in the morning, the wind 

 being favourable, they unmoored, and at seven weighed 

 and put to sea, with the Adventure in company.* 



Nothing material occurred till the 29th, when Captain 

 Cook was informed the crew of the Adventure was sickly ; 

 and this he found was but too true. Her cook was dead, 

 and about twenty of her best men were down in the scurvy 

 and flux.f At this time his ship had only three men on 

 the sick list, and only one of them attacked with the scurvy. 

 Several more, however, began to show symptoms of it, 

 and were put upon the wort, marmalade of carrots, rob 

 of lemons, and oranges. 



To introduce any new article of food among seamen, let 

 it be ever so much for their good, requires both the example 

 and authority of a commander, without both of which, it 

 will be dropped before the crew are sensible of the benefits 



* The ships being ready for sea, Captain Cook determined upon 

 pushing his discoveries as far as 46 south latitude, although now in 

 the depth of winter. " I was at least in hopes," he says, " of being 

 able to point out to posterity, that these seas may be navigated, and 

 that it is practicable to go on discovering, even in the very depth of 

 winter." 



t " At nine hoisted out the boat, and sent her on board the 

 Adventure. She soon after returned, and brought on board 

 Lieutenant Kempe, the captain being indisposed. Mr. Kempe 

 gave me the very disagreeable intelligence of that ship's crew 

 being very sickly, having upwards of twenty men down with the 

 scurvy, and having buried their cook, who fell a martyr to that 

 confounded disorder a few days ago." Extract Lieutenant Clerke'e 

 Log, Admiralty Records, Whitehall. 



