CHAP. 

 XIV. 



1787- 1 . 

 oaober. nim. 



Sunday 7. 



A VOYAGE TO THE 



The meflenger alfo happened to have a pahoa, but was fo 

 unequal a match for the warrior, that it was of no ufe to 



These inftances ferve to fhew, that though the com- 

 mon people are plundered at the pleafure of their fupe- 

 riors, yet the chiefs are not fuffered to alTault and rob 

 each other with impunity. 



Most of the birds met with at the Sandwich Iflands are 

 already well known. However, I brought a fpecimen of 

 the white tern home with me ; and as I do not find that 

 it has yet been figured in any Englifh work, I have pro- 

 cured a corredt drawing of it, from whence the annexed 

 engraving is taken ; and with Mr. Latham's, permifiion, 

 have taken the following defcription from the fixth volume 

 of his Synopjis of Birds ^ p. 363, where an account of it 

 is given. 



White 'Tern. — Length thirteen inches, breadth thirty ; 

 bill {lender, black ; eyelids the fame ; the general colour 

 of the plumage white as fnow ; but the fhafts of the fca- 

 pular quills, and tail, except the three outer feathers, 

 are black ; the tail is forked in fhape, and fhorter than 

 the wings when clofed by an inch ; legs brown ; webs 

 orange ; claws black. In fome there is a flight mixture of 

 brown on the head. This bird inhabits various places of 

 the Southern hemifpherc ; having been met with off the 

 ifland of Saint Helena^ the Cape of Good Hope^ India^ 

 and many of the iflands of the South Sea. 



With 



