CAPTAIN COOK’S FIRST VOYAGE.

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and that Obadie, the perfon found in bed with the Queen, was by every one known tohave been fele&ed by her as the objedt of her lafcivious hours. The Queen foon gotup and dreffed herfelf to wait upon Mr. Banks .

The next day, Sunday, the 30th, Tomio came running to the tents, and takingMr. Banks by the arm, to whom they applied in all emergent cafes, told him thatTubora Tumaida was dying, owing to fomething which had been given him to eat byhis people, and prayed him to go inftantly to him. Accordingly Mr. Banks wenr,and found the Indian very fick. He was told, that he had been vomiting, and hadthrown up a leaf, which they faid contained fome of the poifon which he had taken.Upon examining the leaf, Mr. Banks found it to be nothing more than tobacco, whichthe Indian had begged of fome of their people. He looked up to Mr. Banks , whilehe was examining the leaf, as if he had not a moment to live. Mr. Banks , now know-ing his diforder, ordered him to drink of cocoa-nut milk, which foon reltored him tohealth, and he was as cheerful as ever.

On the ill of May, Captain Cook produced an iron adze, made in imitation ofone of their Hone ones, which had been brought home by Captain Wallis, and(hewed it to Tootahah, who took fuch a fancy to it, that notwithftanding he was offeredthe choice of any of the things that were in his chefts, he fnatched it up with thegreatell eagernefs, and would accept of nothing elfe. The fame day a chief, who haddined on board a few days before, accompanied by fome of his women, who ufed tofeed him, came on board by himfelf, and when dinner was on table, the captain helpedhim to fome vi&uals, thinking upon this occafion he would condefcend to feed himfelf;but he never attempted to eat, and had not one of the fervants fed him, he would cer-tainly have gone without his dinner.

In the afternoon they took the aftronomical quadrant, with fome other inftruments,on Ihore.

On Tuefday, the 2d, having occafion to ufe the quadrant, to their great aftonilh-ment and concern it was miffing; this was the more extraordinary, as a fentinel hadbeen polled the whole night within a few yards of the tent in which it had been de-pofited ; and it had never been taken out of the cafe in which it w'as packed. Theirown people were at firffc fufpeded, imagining they might have miliaken the contentsfor articles ufed in traffic. They fearched the fort and the adjacent places, and a con-fiderable reward was offered, as the lofs of this inllrument would have rendered itimpoffible for them to have made the neceffary obfervations refpecling the tranlit,one of the principal objects of their voyage. After every fruitlefs fearch had beenntade, Mr. Banks , accompanied by Mr. Green and fome other gentlemen, fet out forthe wmods, where he thought he might gain fome intelligence of the robbery, if it hadbeen committed by the natives. In the courfe of their journey they met TuboraTumaida, with a few of the natives, who was made by figns to underltand, that fomeof his countrymen had llolen the quadrant, and Mr. Banks infilled upon being con-duced to the place where it was concealed. Accordingly, they proceeded togethera few miles, and, after fome enquiry, Tubora Tumaida received information of thethief, and that he was to be found at a place about four miles diftant.

Having obtained from Captain Cook a party of men armed as guards, they pro-ceeded to the fpot, and were met by one of Tubora Tumaida’s own people, with part°f the quadrant; foon afterwards the box in which it b^d been packed, containingthe other parts of it, was recovered. It had received no material injury, though takento pieces.

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