oning, which in the whole, from St. Paul to Van Diemen's land, made a difference of four degrees between the longitude by the reckoning and the true longitude.' They landed in Adventure Bay, where no Europeans feem to have vifited fince our author and captain Cook were there in 1777. The traces of captain Furneaux's vifit in 1773, viz. the name cut with a knife on a dead tree, fhow the durability of the wood: the marks are not enlarged, fo that the tree has not fince been in a growing state, and are not in the least obliterated. On the eaft fide of the bay, in a tolerably safe situ- . - ation, our voyagers planted three fine young apple-trees, nine vines, fix plantain trees, a number of orange and lemon feeds, various other fruit feeds and ftones, and two forts of Indian corn. We trust that it will be a common obfervation in future, when the voyager finds numerous unexpected fruits on a diftant fhore, that it is a fign the English have previously vifited the coaft. They faw fome of the natives, and one that they had formerly particularly noticed; but they add little to the accounts of their predeceffors. At Otaheite they find the fame generous friendly reception that the firft voyagers experienced. The diligence of travel-lers and bookmakers have not left much to be gleaned in this field; but we must not defpife the account of an author who feems to have obferved with care, and related with fidelity. One of the earliest objects of curiofity will probably be the fate of the cattle, and the gardens left by captain Cook. This vo latile inconfiderate race have greatly neglected both; and, what neglect has not injured, their enemies, led probably by the report of thefe new riches, have deftroyed. A bull and a cow, however, remain, but they were abfurdly feparated in différent iflands*; fome goats are now caught in a wild ftate, and there are ftill a few sheep, but not apparently very healthy and profperous. The vegetables carried there are greatly leffened; yet various articles remain, particularly fhaddock-trees, pine-apples, fome underground pease and Indian corn. Capt. Blight has reftored the bull to his mate, added to their stock of fruits and plants, and by every judicious meafure endeavoured to convince the iflanders of the importance of thefe treafures. Omai is dead, and fortunately his riches were not fatal to him: his death was natural. Otoo, the former chief, is now called Tinah, and his late appellation is transferred to his cldeft fon. He is now about 35; fix feet four inches in height, and proportionally tout. Iddeah is also much above the common fize of Ota • There were eight calves and ten lambs carried by the plunderers to Eimco, but it is not known whether they have been eaten, or fuffered to increase. heitan women, unusually intelligent, and it seems is a dextrous wrestler. Women contend with women in this exercise in their occafional entertainments, and it fometimes happens that they conteft the prize with men: Iddeah, the Zenobia of the Society Iflands, is one of the heroines of this clafs. The hogs of Otaheite are larger than ufual, from the mixture of the European breed; but the natives will neither eat the flesh of goats, nor drink their milk.-The following remarks concerning the Arreoys, though not wholly new, are fingular and curious. After dinner, Tinah invited me to accompany him with a prefent of provifions to a party of the Arreoys, a fociety described in the account of the former voyages: in this ceremony he made me the principal perfon. Our way to the place where the offering was to be made, was by the fide of a river, along the banks of which I had always walked before this time; but on the prefent occafion a canoe was provided for me, and dragged by eight men.' On arriving at the landing-place, I faw a large quantity of bread-' fruit, with fome hogs ready dreffed and a quantity of cloth. At about forty yards diftant fat a man, who, I was informed, was a principal Arreoy. A lane being made by the croud, he was addreffed by one of Tinah's people, ftanding on the canoe, in a fpeech compofed of fhort fentences, which lafted about a quarter) of an hour. During this, a piece of cloth was produced, one end of which I was defired to hold, and five men, one with a fucking pig, and the others having each a basket of bread-fruit, prepared to follow me. In this order we advanced to the Arreoy, and laid the whole down before him. I then spoke several sentences dictated to me by Tinah, the meaning of which I did not understand; and, my pronunciation not being very exact, caused a great deal of mirth. This fpeech being finished, I was fhewn another Arreoy, who had come from Ulietea, and to him likewife I was required to deliver an oration. Tinah understanding from me, that I had children in my own country, he defired me to make one more offering on their account. There ftill remained three baskets of bread-fruit, a small pig, and another piece of cloth : with these, affifted as before, I made the offering in favour of my children to the man whom I had firft addreffed. He made no reply to all my fine speeches, but fat with great gravity, and received every thing as a matter of right, and not of courtesy. All that I could make out of this ftrange ceremony was, that the Arreoys are highly refpected, and that the fociety is chiefly compofed of men diftinguished by their valour or fome other merit, and that great trust and confidence is reposed in them; but [ could not comprehend what this had to do with my children, or why it should be imagined that an offering made on their account Ddz ΤΟ to a fociety of men, who deftroy all their children, fhould be propitious. I learnt from Tinah, in talking about his children, that his first-born child was killed as foon as it came into the world, he being then an Arreoy; but before his fecond child was born, he quitted the fociety. The Arreoys are allowed great latitude in their amours, except in times of danger. Then, as they are almost all fighting men (tata toa) they are restricted, that they may not weaken or enervate themselves.' The cause of these extraordinary customs is not well known: it is referred by the inhabitants to the apprehenfion of increafing the population too much in a country neceffarily limited. But the inftitution is confined to the principal perfons, and is probably connected with fome cuftoms of the diftant countries, from whence the inhabitants of the Society Islands were de rived. This is in many refpects worthy a strict enquiry, and it should be directed to the eastern coast of Afia and the adjacent iflands, the probable fource of the Otaheitan nation, and of the neighbouring iflanders. While the island of New Holland is fo near, and inhabited fo fcantily, we regret with capt. Bligh, that they should not be acquainted with its fituation; and, if the apprehenfion of too numerous a population be indeed the cause of the inftitution, that they should not have difcovered the means of emigration.-In the following converfation, may we not accufe captain Bligh of too great levity, and a little indifcretion? • While I was at dinner, Tinah defired I would permit a man to come down into the cabin, whom he called his Taowah, or prieft; for I was obliged to keep a centinel at the hatchway to prevent being incommoded at my meals with too much company; a restriction which pleased the chiefs, who always asked leave for any particular person to be admitted of whom they wished me to take notice. The company of the priest brought on a religious converfation. He faid, their great god was called Oro; and that they had many others of lefs confequence. He asked me if I had a God? if he had a fon ? and who was his wife? I told them he had a fon, but no wife. Who was his father and mother? was the next queftion. I faid, he never had father or mother; at this they laughed exceedingly. You have a god then who never had a father or mother, and has a child without a wife! many other queftions were asked, which my little knowledge of the language did not enable me to answer.' Mr. Samuel, captain Bligh's clerk, made an excurfion to the neighbouring mountains, and described the hills in general as well clothed with wood, except the tops of the higher moun tains, which only produced bushes and fern. The birds he faw were blue parroquets and green doves, except one, which was found found burrowing in the ground, and proved to be the whitebellied petrel. He brought the branch of a tree resembling the New Zealand tea plant, which our travellers had found at Van Diemen's Land, and used for brooms. The bread-fruit trees, the chief object of their voyage, they had carefully pòtted, and they were in a thriving ftate. Captain Bligh artfully led Tinah to propofe fending a prefent to king George, and, when mentioning what productions he could offer, feemingly by accident fixed on the bread-fruit trees. Tuesday the 31ft. To-day, all the plants were on board, being in 774 pots, 39 tubs, and 24 boxes. The number of bread-fruit plants were 1015: befides which, we had collected a number of other plants. The avee, which is one of the fineft-flavoured fruits in the world. The ayyah, which is a fruit not fo rich, but of a fine flavour and very refreshing. The rattah, not much unlike a chefnut, which grows on a large tree, in great quantities: they are fingly in large pods, from one to two inches broad; and may be eaten raw, or boiled in the fame manner as Windfor beans, and fo dreffed, are equally good. The orai-ab, which is a very fuperior kind of plantain. All these I was particularly recommended to collect, by my worthy friend, fir Jofeph Banks. I had alfo taken on board fome plants of the ettow and matte, with which the natives here make a beautiful red colour; and a root called peeab, of which they make an excellent pudding,' We left Otaheite with only two patients in the venereal lift, which shows that the difeafe has not gained ground. The natives fay that it is of little confequence, and we saw several instances of people that had been infected, who, after absenting themselves for 15 or 20 days, made their appearance again, without any visible fymptom remaining of the difeafe. Their method of cure I am unacquainted with; but their customary diet, and mode of living, muft contribute towards it. We faw a great many people, however, with fcrophulous habits, and bad fores: thefe they denied to be produced from any venereal caufe; and our furgeon was of the fame opinion. The refult of the mean of 50 fets of lunar obfervations, taken by me on fhore, gives for the longitude of point Venus Capt. Cook, in 1769, places it in In 1777, his last voyage 210 33 57 E. The tide, in Toahroah harbour, was very inconfiderable, and not regular. The greatest rife that I obferved, was 11 inches; but, what was moft fingular, the time of high water did not ap pear to be governed by the moon, it being at the highest, every Dá 3 day, day, between noon and two o'clock. The variable winds and weather, at this time of the year, has no doubt an influence on the tides on fome days, fcarce any rife was perceptible.' At Huaheine captain Bligh found the former accounts of Omai confirmed; but not the leaft traces of the house built for him remained: of all the animals, the mare only was alive. On the 9th, at nine o'clock in the morning, the weather became fqually, and a body of thick black clouds collected in the - east. Soon after, a water-fpout was feen at no great distance from us, which appeared to great advantage from the darkness of the clouds behind it. As nearly as I could judge, it was about two feet diameter at the upper part, and about eight inches at the lower. I had fcarce made thefe remarks, when I obferved that it was advancing rapidly towards the ship. We immediately altered our course, and took in all the fails, except the forefail; foon af ter which, it paffed within ten yards of our ftern, making a ruf ling noife, but without our feeling the leaft effect from its being fo near us. The rate at which it travelled, I judged to be about ten miles per hour, going towards the weft in the direction of the wind. In a quarter of an hour after paffing us, it difperfed. I never was so near a water-fpout before: the connection between the column, which was higher than our maft-heads, and the water below, was no otherwise vifible, than by the fea being disturbed in a circular space of about fix yards in diameter, the centre of which, from the whirling of the water round it, formed a hollow; and from the outer parts of the circle, the water was thrown up with much force, in a spiral direction, and could be traced to the height of fifteen or twenty feet. At this elevation we loft fight of it, and could fee nothing of its junction with the column above. It is impoffible to fay what injury we should have fuffered, if it had paffed directly over us. Mafts, I imagine, might have been car ried away, but I do not apprehend it would have endangered the lofs of a fhip.' We perceive nothing elfe particularly interefting. Near the inland of Kotoo the mutiny began, whofe events have been already related. Of the account now published, the narra tive is fomewhat fuller, and the nautical notation of days is 'reduced to the civil mode. But thefe variations are not of importance enough to detain us. A plan and profile of the deck of the Bounty, a print of capt. Bligh, fections of the bread-fruit, and a chart of the harbour of Toahroah are added. The charts, which illuftrated the former narrative, are alfo re tained. On the whole, this is a very interefting account, and |