PREFACE, 



their paddles than to Tupia's promises, and conti- 

 nued to flee from our navigators with all their 

 power. Mr. Cook, as the least exceptionable ex- 

 pedient of accomplishing his design, ordered a 

 musket to be fired over their heads. This, he 

 hoped, would either make them surrender, or leap 

 into the water; but it produced a contrary effect* 

 The Indians, who were seven in number, immedi- 

 ately formed a resolution not to fly, but to fight. 

 When, therefore, the boat came up, they began the 

 attack with their paddles, and wiih stones, and other 

 offensive weapons ; and they carried it on with so 

 much vigour and violence, that the English thought 

 themselves obliged to fire upon them in their own de- 

 fence- The consequence of ivhich ivas, that four 

 were unhappily killed,^^* 



Not to weary the patience, or outrage the feelings 

 of the reader with a thousand other instances of this 

 kind, which the author has collected from the rela- 

 tions of British voyages, he will now take leave of 

 this part of the subject, by quoting, at length, a case 

 of a more general character ; and, it would seem^ 

 amply suffic ient to silence all doubts, if any yet re- 

 mained, with regard to that " high honour and ge- 

 nerosity," for which Capiain Cook is so celebrated 

 by the Reviewer. 



" On the second of October, Maheine, accompa- 

 nied by other chiefs, came on board the Discovery^ 

 with large hogs, by way of presents ; and were pre- 

 sented, in return, with axes, hatchets, looking- 

 glasses, Slc. Our purveyors were also much grati- 

 fied with the success they met with in marketing ; 

 purchasing the largest hogs for the merest trifles ; as, 

 for instance, a hog of 200 weight, for 12 red fea- 

 thers, and so in proportion. But this friendly inter- 



* Kippis's Life of Cook; p. fiO. 



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