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in, it being calm. Both fhips felt uncommon joy at their meeting, after an abfence offourteen weeks .-—Here the tranfa£iions of both fhips commence again.
Captain Cook knowing that fcurvy-grafs, celery, and other vegetables were to befound in Queen Charlotte’s Sound, went the morning after his arrival, at day-break,to look for fome, and returned on board at breakfaft with a boat-load. Being nowfatisfied, that enough was to be got for the crews of both fhips, he gave orders thatthey fhould be boiled, with wheat and portable broth, every morning for breakfaft;and with peafe and broth for dinner; knowing from experience, that thefe vegetables,thus dreffed, are extremely beneficial in removing all manner of fcorbutic complaints.
In the morning of the 20th, he fent afhore, to the watering-place near the Adven-ture’s tent, the only ewe and ram remaining, of thofe which he had brought from theCape of Good Hope , with intent to leave in this country. Soon after he vifited thefeveral gardens Captain Furneaux had caufed to be made and planted with variousarticles; all of which were in a fiourifhing ftate, and, if attended to by the natives,may prove of great utility to them. The next day he fet fome men to work to makea garden on Long Ifland, which he planted with garden-feeds, roots, See.
On the 22d in the morning, the ewe and ram he had with fo much care and troublebrought to this place, were both found dead, occafioned, as was fuppofed, by eatingfome poifonous plant. Thus his hopes of flocking this country with a breed of fheep,were blafted in a moment. About noon they were vifited, for the firft time fince theyarrived, by fome of the natives, who dined with them ; and it was not a little theydevoured. In the evening they were difmiffed with prefents.
In the morning of the 24th, they met a large canoe in which were fourteen or fifteenpeople. One of the firft queftions they afked was for Tupia, the perfon brought fromOtaheite on the former voyage ; and they feemed to exprefs fome concern, when theytold them he was dead. Thefe people made the fame enquiry of Captain Furneauxwhen he firft arrived.
Nothing worthy of notice happened till the 29th, when feveral of the natives madethem a vifit, and brought with them a quantity of filh, which they exchanged for nails,&c. One of thefe people Captain Cook took and fliewed him fome potatoes, plantedthere by Mr. Fannen, matter of the Endeavour. There feemed to be no doubt of theirfucceeding ; and the man was fo well pleafed with them, that he, of his own accord,began to hoe the earth up about the plants. They next took him to the other gardens,and fliewed him the turnips, carrots, and parfnips, roots which, together with thepotatoes, will be of more real ufe to them than any other articles they had planted. ItWas eafy to give them an idea of thefe roots, by comparing them with fuch as theyknew.
Two or three families of thefe people now took up their abode near the fhips, em-ploying themfelves daily in fifhing, and fupplying them with the fruits of their labour ;the good effe&s of which were foon felt. For they were by no means fuch expert fifhersas the natives ; nor were any of the Englifh methods of fifhing equal to theirs.
On the 2d of June, the fhips being nearly ready to put to fea, Captain Cook fenton fhore two goats, male and female. The former was fomething more than a yearold; but the latter was much older. She had two fine kids, fome time before theyarrived in Dufky Bay, which were killed by cold. Captain Furneaux alfo put onfliore, in Cannibal Cove, a boar and two breeding fows; fo_ that there is reafon tohope this country will, in time, be flocked with thefe animals, if they are notdeftroyed by the natives before they become wild; for afterwards they will be in nodanger.
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