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to the masthead. The breeze being moderate we put the helm a-lee, and 
were delivered from this imminent danger by the good providence of God. 
* We stood out to sea, but, meeting with contrary winds, we beat 
to windward for a considerable time; atlength, the wind coming fair, we 
steered westerly, and unexpectedly found ourselves between two large shoals 
which had some rocks upon them, but we fortunately escaped them. We 
called these shoals the Traps. This day being one of the inferior officers’ 
birthday, it was celebrated by a peculiar kind of festival; a dog was killed 
that had been bred on board ; the hind-quarters were roasted, and a pye 
was made of the fore-quarters, into the crust of which they put the fat; and 
of the viscera they made a haggis.” 
On the 31st March Captain Cook and his party left New Zealand on 
their homeward voyage, and on the 6th May we have the following entry in 
our artist's journal when on the coast of New Holland :— On this day 
Forbes Sutherland, a native of the Orkneys, who had departed this life, was 
carried on shore and decently interred." And on the 92nd of the same 
month this strange entry :—“ This day the captain's clerk had his ears cut off, 
and also his clothes eut off his back." To which is added in a note :—“ The 
captain and officers offered some time after, at Batavia, a reward of fifteen 
guineas to any one who should discover the person or persons who cut off 
. his ears, and fifteen gallons of arrack to any one that should discover him 
or them who had cut off his clothes." And afterwards, in December, while 
at Batavia, an entry in the journal thus ;—‘ One of our midshipmen ran 
away from us here, and it was suspected that he was the person who cut off 
Orton's ears." 
After having been wrecked off the coast of New Holland, and with the 
greatest difficulty saving the ship, and then, taking out all her cargo, running 
her on shore and repairing her, which was accompanied with severe labour 
and hardship, they anchored in the road of Batavia on the 10th of 
October, where the ship was examined and repaired. During this time | 
several died, and Mr. Parkinson makes this entry :—'** While our ship was 
repairing, three of the crew died ; also, Tupaea and the lad Taiota, natives 
of Otaheite, whom we designed to have brought to England. Before our 
arrival at Batavia, they had made great progress in the English tongue, in 
which they were greatly assisted by Mr. Green, the astronomer, who took 
much pains therein, especially with Taiota. When Taiota was seized with 
the fatal disorder, as if certain of his approaching dissolution, he frequently 
said to those of us who were his intimates, * My friends, I am dying!’ He 
took any medicines that were offered him ; but Tupaea, who was ill at the 
same time, and survived him but a few days, refused everything of that 
kind, and gave himself up to grief, regretting in the highest degree that he 
