parts of the world, fhould not be found in this fea. Albatroffes too are so very scarce, that I cannot help thinking that this is not their proper climate.

The few land-birds that we met with are the fame with those in Europe; but as our excurfions were confined wholly to the feacoaft, it is not to be expected, that we could know much of the animals or vegetables of the country. Except mufquitoes, there are few other infects; nor reptiles, that I faw, but lizards. There are no deer upon Oonalafhka, or upon any other of the islands. Nor have they any domestic animals; not even dogs. Foxes and weafels were the only quadrupeds we law; but they told us, that they had hares. alfo, and the marmottas mentioned by Krafheninikoff. Hence it is evident, that the fea and rivers fupply the greateft fhare of food to the inhabitants. They are alfo obliged to the fea for all the wood made ufe of for building, and other neceffary purposes; for not a ftick grows upon any of the islands, nor upon the adjacent coaft of the con

tinent.

"The learned tell us, that the feeds of plants are, by various means, conveyed from one part of the world to another; even to inlands in the midst of great oceans, and far remote from any other land. How comes it to pals, that there are no trees growing on this part of the continent of America, nor any of the islands lying near it? They are certainly as well fituated for receiving feeds, by all the various I have heard of, as any ways of those coafts are that abound in wood. May not nature have denied to fome foil the power of raifing trees, without the affiftance of art? As to the drift wood, upon the fhores of the islands, I have no doubt that it comes from America. For although there may

be

none on

the neighbouring coaft, enough may grow farther up the country, which torrents in the fpring may break loose, and bring down to the fea. And not a little may be conveyed from the woody coafts, tho' they lie at a greater distance.

"The people of Oonalafhka bury their dead on the fummits of hills, and raife a little hillock over the grave. In a walk into the Country, one of the natives, who attended me, pointed out several of thefe receptacles of the dead. There was one of them, by the fide of the road leading from the harbour to the village, over which was raised a heap of ftones. It was obferved, that every one who paffed it, added one to it. I faw in the country feveral ftone hillocks, that feemed to have been raised by art. Many of them were apparently of great antiquity.

"What their notions are of the Deity, and of a future state, I know net. I am equally unacquainted with their diverfions; nothing having been feen that could give us an infight into either.

On

"On Monday the 26th, Captain Cook left this ifland. His intention was to proceed to the Sandwich Islands, there to spend a few of the winter months, and then to go to Kamtfchatka, fo as to endcavour to be there by the middle of May, the enfuing fummer. the 26th of November, he difcovered Mowee, and on the 30th Owhyhee, two of the Sandwich Islands. In plying between these two islands, they had an occafional traffic with the natives of Owhyhee for provifions: "I had never met," fays Captain Cook, "with a behaviour fo free from referve and fufpicion, in my intercourse with any tribes of favages, as we experienced in the people of this iftand. It was very common for them to fend up into the fhip the feveral articles they brought off for barter;

parts of the world, fhould not be found in this fea. Albatrolles too are fo very scarce, that I cannot help thinking that this is not their proper climate.

"The few land-birds that we met with are the fame with thofe in Europe; but as our excursions were confined wholly to the leacoalt, it is not to be expected, that we could know much of the animals or vegetables of the country. Except mufquitoes, there are few other infects; nor reptiles, that I There are no faw, but lizards. deer upon Oonalafhka, or upon any other of the illands. Nor have they any domeftic animals; not even dogs. Foxes and weafels were the only quadrupeds we law; but they told us, that they had hares allo, and the marmottas mentioned by Krafheninikoff. Hence it is evident, that the fea and rivers fupply the greatest share of food to the inhabitants. They are alfo obliged to the fea for all the wood made ufe of for building, and other neceffary purposes; for not a ftick grows upon any of the islands, nor upon the adjacent coast of the con

tinent.

the neighbouring coaft, enough may grow farther up the country, which torrents in the fpring may break loofe, and bring down to the fea. And not a little may be cor. veved from the woody coats, tho' they lie at a greater distance.

"The people of Oonalafhka bury their dead on the fummits of hills, and raife a little hillock over the grave. In a walk into the country, one of the natives, who attended me, pointed out feveral of thefe receptacles of the dead. There was one of them, by the fide of the road leading from the harbour to the village, over which was raifed a heap of ftones. It was obferved, that every one who paffed it, added one to it. I faw in the country feveral ftone hillocks, that feemed to have been raifed by art. Many of them were apparently of great antiquity.

"What their notions are of the Deity, and of a future ftate, I know not. I am equally unacquainted with their diverfions; nothing hav ing been feen that could give us an inlight into either.

"On Monday the 26th, Captain Cook left this ifland. His intention was to proceed to the Sandwich Islands, there to spend a few of the winter months, and then to go to Kamtfchatka, fo as to endcavour to be there by the middle of May, the enfuing fummer. On the 26th of November, he difcovered Mowee, and on the goth Owhyhee, two of the Sandwich Iflands. In plying between thele two islands, they had an occalional traffic with the natives of Owhyhee for provifions: "I had never met." fays Captain Cook, "with a behaviour fo free from referve and fufpicion, in my intercourse with any tribes of favages, as we experienced in the people of this iftand. It was very common for them to fend up into the fhip the feveral articles they brought off tor

barter:

The latter, the Captain obferved, it was not poffible to keep from coming on board; no women, he ever met with, were lefs referved; and indeed, it appeared to him, that they vifited the fhips with no other view, than to make a furrender of their perfons. At length, on the 10th of January 1779, a bay was difcovered, into which, after he had fent to examine it, Captain Cook refolved to carry the fhips. As night approached, the greater part of his vifitors retired to the fhore; but numbers of them requefted his permiffion to fleep on board. Curiofity was not the only motive, at least with fome; for, the next morning, feveral things were mifling, which determined him not to entertain fo many another time. On the 17th, he anchored in this bay, which is called by the natives Karakakooa. "The fhips," fays Captain Cook, "continued to be much crowded with natives, and were furrounded by a multitude of canoes. I had no where, in the courfe of my voy

ages, feen fo numerous a body of people affembled at one place. For, befides thofe who had come off to us in canoes, all the fhore of the bay was covered with fpectators, and many hundreds were fwimming round the fhips like fhoals of fish. We could not but be ftruck with the fingularity of this fcene; and perhaps there were few on board who now lamented our hav ing failed in our endeavours to find a Northern paffage homeward, laft fummer. To this difappointment we owed our having it in our power to revifit the Sandwich Iflands, and to enrich our voyage with a discovery which, though the laft, feemed, in many refpects, to be the most important that had hitherto been made by Europeans, throughout the extent of the Pacific ocean."

Here Captain Cook's Journal ends; the remaining tranfactions of the voyage are related by Captain King, in the third volume.

[To be continued.]

NOW

the fummer is in it's full force, and can only be confidered in the great. In the preceding month, the powers of the fun, the warmth of his rays, had depurated the liquids in our body, had facilitated the circulation, and augmented the animal fpirits; and thofe igneous, vegetative, and vivifying particles which circulated about us, which pervaded us, and which we breathed, had given us by his benign influence more health and ftrength; but in July the continuation of his heat, and a heat more intenfe, dilates the mufcles,

relaxes the nervous fyftem, and infpires an inclination to reft. To a defire for wandering, and active curiofity, fucceeds a fweet and folid contentment. We find ourselves more difpofed for reflection, and are not diverted from it as before by a multiplicity of new fenfations: yet is our train of mufing not melancholy; the health we enjoy, the good things we fhall foon be poffeffed of, the light that brightens each object, and even ftrips the night of it's darknefs, every thing difpofes the foul to the fweets of joyous emotions; but it is to the

impremon