to* C O O K’s V O Y A G E. 
bear a flight refemblance to thofe of a hare. This animal it 
called by the natives Kangutoo. 
The next day, our Kanguroo was dreffed for dinner, and 
proved moll excellent meat ; we might now indeed be faid to 
fare fumptuoufly every day, for we had turtle in great plenty, 
and we all agreed that they were much better than any we had 
tailed in England, which we imputed to their being eaten 
frelh from the fea, -before their natural fat had been waited, or 
their juices changed by a diet and fituation fo different from 
what the fea affords them, as garbage and a tub. Molt of 
thofe that we caught here, were of the kind called green turtle, 
and weighed from two to three hundred weight, and when 
thefe were killed, they were always found to be full of turtle 
grafs, which our naturalilts took to be a kind of conferva ; 
two of them were loggerheads, the flefn of which was much 
lefs delicious, and in their Itomachs nothing was to be found 
but Ihells. 
In the morning of the 16th, while the people were employed 
as ufual in getting the fhip ready for the fea, I climbed one of 
the hills on the north fide of the river, from which I had an 
extenfive view of the inland country, and found it agreeably 
diverfified by hills, rallies, and large plains, which in many 
places were richly covered with wood. This evening we 
obferved an emerfion of Jupiter’s firft fate’ life, which gave 
214 0 53' 45" of longitude. The obfervation which was mdde 
on the 29th of June gave 214 0 42' 30" ; the mean 1 is 214 0 48' 
7§", the longitude of this place weft of Greenwich. 
On the 17 th, I fent the Mafter and one of the mates in the 
pinnace, to look for a channel to the northward ; and I went 
myfelf with Mr, Banks and Dr. Solander into the woods, on 
the other fide of the water. Tupia, who had been thither by 
himfelf, reported, that he had feen three Indians who had 
given him fome roots, about as thick as a man’s finger, in 
flrape not much unlike a rhadifn, and of a very agreeable tafte. 
This induced us to go over, hoping that we ftiouid be able to 
improve our acquaintance with the natives : in a very little 
time we aifeovered four of them in a canoe, who, as foon as 
they faw us, came afhore, and, though they were all ftrangers, 
walked up to us, without any figns of fufpicion or fear. Two 
of thefe had necklaces of Ihells, which we could not perfuade 
them to part with for any thing we could give them : we pre- 
sented them however with fome beads, and after a fliort ftay 
they departed. We attempted to follow them, hoping that 
they w'ould conduct us to fome place where we fhould find more 
of them, and have an opportunity of feeing their woman ; but 
they made us unierftand, by figns, that they did not defire 
our company. At eight o’clock next morning, we were vifited 
by feveral of the natives, who were now become’ quite familiar, 
