fervour of the summer sun, and in open despite of his face too, of putrifying dunghills within the precincts of their city.  It is a certain fact that such a receptacle of filth, of the largest size, is established in all its amplitude of abomination on the west side of it, and often emits its pestilential spirit on the whole track of one of its principal streets.  Such things ought not to be, and would not, if people used their heads as well as their noses.—­E.]

In the evening, all our boats being employed in carrying the water, on board, and Mr Banks and his company finding it probable that they should be left on shore after it was dark, by which much time would be lost, which they were impatient to employ in putting the plants they had gathered in order, they applied to the Indians for a passage in one of their canoes:  They immediately consented, and a canoe was launched for their use.  They went all on board, being eight in number, but not being used to a vessel that required so even a balance, they unfortunately overset her in the surf:  No life however was lost, but it was thought advisable that half of them should wait for another turn.  Mr Banks, Dr Solander, Tupia, and Tayeto embarked again, and without any farther accident arrived safely at the ship, well pleased with the good nature of their Indian friends, who cheerfully undertook to carry them a second time, after having experienced how unfit a freight they were for such a vessel.

While these gentlemen were on shore, several of the natives went off to the ship, and trafficked, by exchanging their cloth for that of Otaheite:  Of this barter they were for some time very fond, preferring the Indian cloth to that of Europe:  But before night it decreased in its value five hundred per cent.  Many of these Indians I took on board, and shewed them the ship and her apparatus, at which they expressed equal satisfaction and astonishment.

As I found it exceedingly difficult to get water on board on account of the surf, I determined to stay no longer at this place; on the next morning, therefore, about five o’clock, I weighed anchor and put to sea.

This bay, which is called by the natives Tegadoo, lies in the latitude of 38 deg. 10’ S.; but as it has nothing to recommend it, a description of it is unnecessary.

From this bay I intended to stand on to the northward, but the wind being right against me, I could make no way.  While I was beating about to windward, some of the natives came on board, and told me, that in a bay which lay a little to the southward, being the same that I could not fetch the day I put into Tegadoo, there was excellent water, where the boats might land without a surf.  I thought it better therefore to put into this bay, where I might complete my water, and form farther connections with the Indians, than to keep the sea.  With this view I bore up for it, and sent in two boats, manned and armed, to examine the watering place, who, confirming the report