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to the masthead. The breeze bemg moderate we put the hehii a-lee, and 

 were deHvered 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 ; at length, 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 22nd of the same 

 month this strange entry : — " This day the captain's clerk had his ears cut off, 

 and also his clothes cut 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, taldng oixt all her cargo, running 

 her on shore and repauing 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 shiiD was 

 repau'ing, 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 



