49 o 



I^ E M' ARKS 



O N 



T H B 



A R T S 



AND 



SCIENCES 



L 



afterwards. ^^' When we came to Queen Charlotte's Sound, in 

 New-Zeeland, in 1773,. we had been - out at • fea for at leafl five 



mon 



none 01 oar 



failors had any fymptom of this d 



•. /^ 



J 



which could hardly lie dormant for fuch a length of time ; fmc 

 from our leaving the Cape of Good Hope, they had been eatii 



r 



fak^meatand falt-porit plentifully. 



e 



had 



no g 



time- 



had indulged freely in the u£e of fpirituous liquors, and were 



w 



during the whole of the intermediate time, expofed to wet and cold, 

 and all the rigours of the climate : • circumflances that would foon 



; 



and 



ndered 



have accelerated the breaking out of the distemper, 



itfo virulent, that they muft have had recourfe to the affiflance of 



the furgeon : yet, when we w^ent out of Queen 



Charlotte's Sound 



iix months after 



leaving the Cape, a midlliipman 



on board tlte 



Adventure difcovered that he had been infed'ed 



one 



the 



New-Zeeland females. In O-Taheitee, and the Society-illes, we 

 found in 1773, the females communicated this difeafe to feveral of 



eithe 



r re- 



our people. From the Friendly-illes no infection was 

 ceived or communicated, becaufe the people who laboured under it 

 were not allowed to have any commerce with the females of thofe 



The crevv left the Marquefas and Eafter-ifland without 



the evil, becaufe not a fingle perfon 



iiles. 



catcning, or eommunicatmg 



was 



6 



* Hawkefvvorth, vol. i. p, 489, 49,0* 



