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THE 



5 



ARTS Lieutenant ' on 



board the Refolution^^lid who- had been before 



AND 



SCIENCES 



'^--i^/i* 



twice 



at Taheitee, in the Endeavour, and in the Dolphin. 



Captain 



I 



Cook was pleafed alfoto communicate to me, two catalogues of fuch 

 illes as he had heard named in his firfl voyage at Taheitee, and from 

 Tupayaj I met with another copy of the chart, drawn after Tu- 



; polTeffion of Jofeph Banks, Efq. who. 



th 



paya's diredion, in 



with great politenefs and well known readinefs to promote what- 



..ever has a tendency to become fubfervient to 



fcience, permitted me 



take a copy of 



I remarked that the charts both agreed 



general, and that the catalog 



tained all the names which 



were found on 



the charts* and fome few 



mor 



ferted 



Some of 



t 



them. I colleded likewife many names and accounts of iflands, 

 when we were at Taheitee and the Society Ifles. 

 were flrangely fpelt, as there never were two perfons, in the laft 

 and former voyages, who fpelt the fame name in the fame manner ; 

 itmuft therefore happen, that fome of the names feemed to be dif^ 



ferent; though 



more 



to agree better than iing^it "«^ "--- **ip 



critical examination, I found them 

 mi^ht at iiril fieht have been expeded : this 



chart I have caufed to be engraved as a monument of the Ingenuity 

 and geographical knowledge of the people in the Society Ifles, and 

 of Tupaya in particiilar : the ifles are all numbered, that I might 

 h^ve an opportunity of referring to thefe numbers, and to add a few 



ks which may be thought neceflary for illull 



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