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as to seize on all they could find, and with such eagerness 

 as plainly showed they were the most valuable things they 

 could give them. To the principal of these two men Captain 

 Cook gave the pigs, fowls, seeds, and roots. At first he 

 did not think it was meant to give them to him, for he took 

 but little notice of them till he was satisfied they were for 

 himself ; not was he then in such rapture as when he gave 

 him a spike-nail half the length of his arm. However, at his 

 going away, the Captain took notice that he took care to 

 have them all collected together, and kept a watchful eye 

 over them, lest any should be taken away. He made a 

 promise not to kill any ; and if he kept his word, and took 

 proper care of them, there were enough to stock the whole 

 island in due time. The seeds were wheat, French, and 

 kidney beans, pease, cabbage, turnips, onions, carrots, 

 parsnips, yams, etc. It was evident these people had not 

 forgot the Endeavour being on their coast, for the first words 

 they spoke were" We are afraid of the guns." As they 

 could be no strangers to the affair which happened off Cape 

 Kidnapper, in the former voyage, experience had taught 

 them to have some regard to these instruments of death. 



They now stretched to the southward ; presently after 

 violent weather came on, and for two days they were beating 

 up against a hard gale. When they arrived just in sight 

 of port, they had the mortification to be driven off from 

 the land by a furious storm. 



They continued to combat tempestuous weather till the 

 30th, when they lost sight of the Adventure. In the after- 

 noon the gale abated. Captain Cook now regretted the loss 

 of her ; for had she been with him, he should have given 

 up all thoughts of going to Queen Charlotte's Sound to 

 wood and water, and have sought for a place to get these 

 articles farther south as the wind was now favourable for 

 ranging along the coast. But their separation made it 

 necessary for him to repair to the Sound, that being the 

 place of rendezvous. 



As they approached the land, they saw smoke in several 

 places along the shore ; a sure sign that the coast was 

 inhabited. They continued to stand to the eastward all 

 night, in hopes of meeting with the Adventure in the 

 morning ; but in this they were disappointed, and soon 

 encountered another storm. 



After a succession of calms and brisk gales, in tracing the 

 coast, they discovered on the east side of Cape Teerawhitte, 

 a new inlet they had never observed before, into which 

 they entered and cast anchor. 



Soon after they had anchored, several of the natives came 

 off in their canoes ; two from one shore, and one from the 



