THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
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friends, honoured me with their company at dinner on that 1776. 
day; and, on their coming on hoard, and alfo on their go- , J une ‘ , 
ing afhore, we faluted them with feventeen guns, and three 
cheers. 
With the benevolent view of conveying fome permanent 
benefit to the inhabitants of Otaheite, and of the other 
iflands in the Pacific Ocean, whom we might happen to 
vifit, his Majefty having commanded fome ufeful animals 
to be carried out, we took on board, on the 10th, a bull, Monday io» 
two cows with their calves, and fome fheep, with hay and 
corn for their fubfiftence; intending to add to thefe, other 
ufeful animals, when I fhould arrive at the Cape of Good 
Hope. 
I was alfo, from the fame laudable motives, furnifhed 
with a fufficient quantity of fuch of our European garden 
feeds, as could not fail to be a valuable prefent to our newly- 
difcovered iflands, by adding frefh fupplies of food to their 
own vegetable productions. 
Many other articles, calculated to improve the condition 
of our friends in the other hemifphere in various ways, 
were, at the fame time, delivered to us by order of the 
Board of Admiralty. And both fhips were provided with a 
proper affortment of iron tools and trinkets, as the means 
of enabling us to traffic, and to cultivate a friendly inter- 
courfe with the inhabitants of fuch new countries as we 
might be fortunate enough to meet with. 
The fame humane attention was extended to our own 
wants. Some additional clothing, adapted to a cold climate, 
was ordered for our crews: and nothing was denied to us 
that could be fuppofed in the leaf!: conducive to health, or 
even to convenience. 
Nor did the extraordinary care of thofe at the head of the 
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