Captain Cook's original voyages round the world, performed by royal authority - containing the whole of his discoveries in geography, navigation, astronomy, &c., with memoirs of his life, and (14584970477)

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Title: Captain Cook's original voyages round the world, performed by royal authority : containing the whole of his discoveries in geography, navigation, astronomy, &c., with memoirs of his life, and particulars relative to his unfortunate death
Year: 1815 (1810s)
Authors: Cook, James, 1728-1779
Subjects: Cook, James, 1728-1779 Voyages around the world
Publisher: Woodbridge (East Suffolk) B. Smith
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives



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ould eat nothing else, he had a mind to a circumstai.ee it is pretty evidetit that theydog of Mr. Forsters which was killed, and are not more strictly honest amongst them-he relished both the tlesh and the broth selves than to strangers. This reconnoitringmade of it. This seems a very odd kind of party were followed by a crowd of natives ;tbod for a sick man : and, in the opinion of and before they had proceeded far, theyujany people, would create much greater were met by a middle-aged man, with hissickness than it was likely to be any means face painted. He hud a spear in his hand,«.f removing. and walked along with them, keeping his On the 11th of March, land was seen from countrymen at a distance, that our peoplethe mast-head, which proved to be Easter might receive no molestation from them,island; and on the 13th, we came to an This man was punctured from headto foot,anchor in thirty-.six fathoms water, before They found the greatest^ part of the island 6 ^ A ? <;-/ 5 ^ ■A 5
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AND ROUND THE WOULD. 255 l>!>non ; tliou^^ in many places there wereplantations ot the roots before mentioned.They met with the ruins of three ijlatformsof stone work. On each of these platformshad sfood four very large statues, made ofstone, but they were now fallen to tiieground, and nuicli defaced. These statueswere fifteen feet long, and six feet broailacross the shoulders. On the head of eachstatue was a round red stone, of considerablemairnitude. Travellina on, they found insome places a poor sort of iron ore, andatkrwards came to a fruitful part of theIsland, on which were several plantations.They could get no good water in theirjourney ; but they were obliged to drinkwhat they could get, on account of the ex-tremity of their thirst. They foimd thenatives so addicted to theft, that they wereobliged to fire some small shot at a man,who took from them their bag of provisionsand implements. The shot hit this fellowin the back, on which he dro;);>ed the J)agand fell ; but