ey gladly exchanged cocoanuts, fruit resembling apples, bread-fruit,
and small fish, for beads and other trifles. They had a pig, which they
would not part with for anything but a hatchet; this Cook would not
allow to be given, considering that if a hatchet was given them it would
be considered from that time forward to be the proper price of a pig.

The bread-fruit, with which the voyagers now first became acquainted,
grows on a tree about the height of an ordinary oak. Its leaves are
about a foot and a half long, of an oblong shape, deeply sinuated like
those of the fig-tree, which they resemble in consistency and colour;
they also, on being broken, exude a white, milky juice. The fruit is
about the size and shape of a child's head, and the surface is
reticulated. It is covered with a thin skin, and has an oblong core
four inches long. The eatable part, which lies between the skin and the
core, is as white as snow, and of the consistency of new bread. It must
be roasted before it is eaten, being first divided into three or four
parts. Its taste is insipid, with a slight sweetness somewhat
resembling the crumb of wheaten bread mixed with a Jerusalem artichoke.

The first person who came off was Owhaw. He was well-known to Mr Gore,
and to others who had been there with Captain Wallis. It was hoped that
he would prove useful, and he was therefore taken on board and every
attention shown him. Captain Cook at once issued a set of rules to
govern the ship's company in all their intercourse with the natives.
They were as follows:--

"1. To endeavour by every fair means to cultivate a friendship with the
natives; and to treat them with all imaginable humanity.

"2. A proper person or persons will be appointed to trade with the
natives for all manner of provisions, fruit, and other productions of
the earth; and no officer or seaman, or other person belonging to the
ship, excepting such as are so appointed, shall trade or offer to trade
for any sort of provision, fruit, or other productions of the earth,
unless they have leave so to do.

"3. Every person employed on shore, on any duty whatsoever, is strictly
to attend to the same; and if by any neglect he loses any of his arms or
working tools, or suffers them to be stolen, the full value thereof will
be charged against his pay, according to the custom of the Navy in such
cases; and he shall receive such further punishment as the nature of the
case may deserve.