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A VOYAGE, Zee, 
of canoes. I had no where, in the courfe of my voyages, 
feen fo numerous a body of people affembled at one place. 
For, belides thofe who had come off to us in canoes, all the 
fhore of the bay was covered with fpedators, and many 
hundreds were fwimming round the fhips like fhoals of 
filh. We could not but be ftruck with the lingularity of 
this feene ; and perhaps there were few on board who now 
lamented our having failed in our endeavours to find a 
Northern paffage homeward, lafit fummer. To this difap- 
pointment we owed our having it in our power to revifit the 
Sandwich IJlands , and to enrich our voyage with a difeovery 
which, though the laft, feemed, in many refpe6ts, to be the 
moft important that had hitherto been made by Europeans, 
throughout the extent of the. Pacific Ocean. 
[ Here Captain Cook's journal ends. 'The remaining tranfattions 
of the voyage are related by Captain King , in the third Volume. ] 
END OF THE SECOND VOLUME. 
