Omai was ultimately taken back to his own com third voyage, and carried with him so many ke the English, in the shape of presents of looked upon by his countrymen as a kind of allinam living example that the old Latin Grammar notation multos," &c., holds good even in the nervilisert ro than in civilised society. Captain ook se ne Resolution a youth of Clietes named Oididee... Hete-hete.

the name,

island. In the trafficking which soon commenced between the crews of the two ships and the natives, the greatest harmony and good-humour were preserved. The people showed themselves extremely anxious to oblige their visitors, and did honour to the discernment which had given to their group the designation of the Friendly Islands. At the island of Amsterdam, to which the two ships next bent their course, the visitors were received with similar demonstrations of goodwill, and the king of the island proposed to our commander, as a sign of friendship and alliance, that they should exchange names. This strange custom had already been found prevalent at the Society Islands, and at Huaheine, where the venerable Oree ruled, Captain Cook had been induced to take the name of Oree during his stay on the island, while his majesty was called Cookee. Amsterdam Island was still more highly cultivated than Middelburgh; the whole place being laid out in plantations, and the very hedges consisting of fruit-trees. The people paid implicit obedience to their chief, and it was noticed that though their curiosity regarding their visitors was great, they immediately ranged themselves in a circle at some distance, upon the command of their chief, and did not attempt to molest their visitors by crowding round and mobbing them—an example of politeness towards illustrious guests which might be commended to the attention of far more civilised communities. They expressed their thanks on receiving a present by placing the article on their heads. A most singular custom among them was the practice of cutting off one or both of the little fingers.

New Zealand was now visited by the two ships, and Cook, ever mindful of the interests of the people whose land he came to explore, gave to one of the chiefs some pigs and poultry, and a number of useful garden seeds; the chief was enraptured with his new acquisitions, and promised not to kill any of the animals, but to keep them to stock the island, and he went away rejoicing, the envied of all observers. In a great gale which occurred soon after, the Adventure, Captain Furneaux's ship, parted company with the Resolution, and was never able to rejoin her. Cook proceeded in the Resolution to Queen Charlotte's Sound, and was much mortified to find that the animals he had left with the natives on his former visit had mostly been killed by them. But the gardens his benevolent care had planted had fared better, and the potatoes in particular had thriven exceedingly. The tone of commercial morality among the natives in Queen Charlotte's

Sound was decidedly low. Cook relates how he and his people purchased a large quantity of fish from them, and he says "While we were upon this traffic they showed a great inclination to pick my pockets, and to take away the fish with one hand which they had just given me with the other. This evil one of the chiefs undertook to remove, and with fury in his eyes made a show of keeping his people at a proper distance. I applauded his conduct, but at the same time kept so good a look-out as to detect him in picking my pocket of a handkerchief, which I suffered him to put in his bosom before I seemed to know anything of the matter, and then told him what I had lost. He seemed quite ignorant and innocent till I took it from him, and then he put it off with a laugh, acting his part with so much address that it was hardly possible for me to be angry with him, so that we remained good friends, and he accompanied me on board to dinner."

Fresh proof was now obtained of the prevalence of cannibalism among these people; one of them absolutely brought a piece of human flesh on board the Resolution, and cooked and devoured it in the presence of the officers and crew, to the horror and disgust of all, and especially of Oedidee, the Otaheitan, who expressed the utmost indignation against the perpetrators of the savage act, telling them that they were vile men, and that henceforth he would never again be their friend. But the savages argued that there could be no harm in eating enemies whom they had killed in battle, and who, had the fortune of war been reversed, would have done the same to them; and they laughed at the expostulations of the more scrupulous Oedidee.

V.

Second Run to the South-Hardships and Dangers-The Ships obliged to turn Northward-Cook's Design of Exploring the Pacific-Easter Island-Curious Statues-Otaheite-Barter with Red Parrots' Feathers-Oree, the ChiefNew Zealand-Tragical Occurrence to Captain Furneaux's Crew-Details of the Massacre-Rounding the Horn-Survey of Staten Island and Southern Coast of America-Return to England-Brilliant Success of the Voyage.

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S there appeared no prospect of the speedy arrival of the Adventure, and Cook was determined to go once more in search of the reputed southern continent, he left New Zealand on the 26th of November, and steered south towards the icy region of the Antarctic Circle. Again the ship was exposed to all the dangers of striking upon ice islands, or of being entangled among the pack or field ice; and the further the Adventure pushed her way towards the Southern Pole, the more convinced did her commander become, from the swell that rolled continually northwards, and from other signs which his practical judgment knew well how to appreciate, that there could be no great extent of land except in close proximity to the Southern Pole; and subsequent investigations have proved the correctness of his conclusions. The ship several times narrowly escaped running on ice islands, and had frequently been embayed among fields of ice; and day by day the navigation became more intricate and dangerous. At one time twenty-three of these floating islands were seen from the deck, while more than double the number could be counted from the masthead. Strong gales brought with them blinding showers of sleet and snow, which froze to the rigging, making the ropes stiff as wire, and the sails as hard as sheets of metal, so that at last the hoisting or lowering of a sail became a matter of the greatest difficulty; while thick fogs increased the difficulties and troubles of the mariners by adding a "horror of darkness" to the many dangers which beset their adventurous path through these unexplored seas. But not until the ice to the south stretched away, far as the eye could reach, in a thick impenetrable field, did the brave commander determine to turn the ship's prow once more to the north, and even then Cook was not satisfied with what had been done. He had certainly solved the problem for whose solution the expedition had been fitted out, and had ascertained beyond a doubt that no southern continent existed that was not wholly inaccessible from the barrier of ice by which it must be