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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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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    breads and backs, looked not unlike the crofs- beks worn by our foldiers *, the fame kind of ftreaks were allb drawn round their legs and thighs like broad garters: each of thefe men held in his hand the weapon that had been defcribed to us as like a cimeter, which appeared to be about two feet and a half long, and they feemedto talk to each other with great earneftnefs. We continued to Hand into the bay, and early in the afternoon anchored under the fouth fhore, about two miles within the entrance, in fix fathom water, the fouth point bearing S. E. and the north point Eaft. As we came in we faw, on both points of the bay, a few huts, and feveral of the natives, men, women, and chil- dren. Under the fouth head we faw four fmall canoes, with each one man on board, v/ho were very bufily employed inftriking fifh with a long pike or fpear : they ventured almoft into the furf, and were fo intent upon what they were doing, that although the {hip paffed within a quarter of a mile of them, they fcarcely turned their eyes toward her; pofllbly being deafened by the furf, and their attention wholly fixed upon their bufinefs or fport, they neither faw nor heard her go paft them. The place where the fhip had anchored was abreaft of a fmall village, confifting of about fix or eight houfes •, and while we were preparing to hoift out the boat, we faw an old woman, followed I7TO. /April, i I—■' ^ Saturd. 28.