Volume 4

An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Sir Joseph Banks, Bart / By John Hawkesworth ... Illustrated with cuts and charts, relative to countries now first discovered, or hitherto but imperfectly known.

  • Hawkesworth, John, 1715?-1773.
Date:
1785
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Sir Joseph Banks, Bart / By John Hawkesworth ... Illustrated with cuts and charts, relative to countries now first discovered, or hitherto but imperfectly known. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    H 1770. April. Vi—V— Satui'd. 28. LIEUTENANT COOK’s VOYAGE diftant about a mile, and feeing a fmoke on the fhore, we direfted our glalTes to the fpot, and foon difcovered ten people, who, upon our nearer approach, left their fire, and retired to a little eminence, whence they could conveniently obferve our motions. Soon after two canoes, each having two men on board, came to the Ihore juft under the eminence, and the men joined the reft on the top of it. The pinnace, which had been fent ahead to found, now ap- proached the place, upon which all the Indians retired farther up the hill, except one, who hid himfelf among fome rocks near the landino-- place. As the pinnace proceeded along the fhore, moft of the people took the fame route, and kept abreaft of her at a diftance; when flie came back, the mafter told us, that in a cove a little within the harbour, fome of them had come down to the beach, and invited him to land by many figns and words of which he knew not the meaning; but that ail of them were armed with long pikes, and a wooden weapon fhaped fome- what like a cimeter. The Indians who had not followed the boar, feeing the Ihip approach, ufed many threatening geftures, and brandilhed their weapons j particularly two, who made a very fingular appearance, for their faces feeined to have been dufted with a white powder, and their bodies painted with broad ftreaks of the fame colour, which pafling obliquely over their breafts