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Adventure had been there during his absence ; and they 

 gave them to understand, in a manner which admitted of no 

 doubt, that soon after they were gone, she arrived ; that she 

 staid between ten and twenty days, and had been gone ten 

 months. 



The 8th, they put two pigs, a boar, and a sow, on shore, 

 in the cove next without Cannibal Cove ; so that it is 

 hardly possible all the methods the Captain has taken to 

 stock this country with these animals should fail. 



On the 9th, the natives having brought a very large and 

 seasonable supply of fish, the Captain bestowed on Pedro 

 a present of an empty oil-jar, which made him as happy 

 as a prince. 



In the afternoon a party went on shore into one of the 

 coves, where were two families of the natives variously em- 

 ployed ; some sleeping, some making mats, others roasting 

 fish and fire-roots, and one girl was heating of stones. As 

 soon as the stones were hot, she took them out of the fire, 

 and gave them to an old woman, who was sitting in the hut. 

 She placed them in a heap, laid over them a handful of 

 green celery, and over that a coarse mat, and then squatted 

 herself down, on her heels, on the top of all ; thus making 

 a kind of Dutch warming-pan, on which she sat as close as 

 a hare on her seat. The Captain supposes it was intended 

 to cure some disorder she might have on her, which the 

 steams arising from the green celery might be a specific for. 



On the 10th of November, they took their farewell of New 

 Zealand, and steered for Cape Campbell. 



The Captain's intention now was to cross this vast ocean, 

 so as to pass over those parts which were left unexplored the 

 preceding summer. 



On Saturday, the 17th of December, they made the land, 

 about six leagues distant. On this discovery, they wore and 

 brought to, with the ship's head to the south ; and having 

 sounded, found seventy-five fathoms water, the bottom 

 stone and shells. The land now before them could be no 

 other than the west coast of Terra del Fuego, and near the 

 west entrance of the Straits of Magalhaens. 



This was the first run that had been made directly across 

 this ocean, in a high southern latitude. The Captain says he 

 never made a passage, anywhere, of such length, where so 

 few interesting circumstances occurred. For, the variation 

 of the compass excepted, he met with nothing else worth 

 notice. Here they took their leave of the South Pacific 

 Ocean. " I have now done with the Southern Pacific 

 Ocean," says Captain Cook in the quarto edition of his 

 " Voyages," " and flatter myself that no one will think 

 that I have left it unexplored, or that more could have been 



