iled for Queen Charlotte's
Sound, encountering on the way no less than six waterspouts of unusual
size. A gun was got ready to fire, but they all passed by without
touching her. On reaching their destination, the _Adventure_, to the
satisfaction of all, was found to have arrived there first. At Queen
Charlotte's Sound a garden was also planted, and Captain Cook gave the
natives some potatoes, explaining their use, and the mode of cultivating
them. A boar and two sows, and a pair of goats, were likewise landed.
The natives appeared to be friendly, and some came on board with their
children, for whom they hoped to obtain presents, though at first it was
supposed with the intention of selling them. To one of the boys, about
ten years old, a white shirt had been given, and he went about showing
it until he encountered an old goat, who knocked him over into some
dirt. The boy was inconsolable until his shirt had been washed and
dried. While a party of the natives were on board, a large canoe was
seen coming into the harbour. Some of the natives hurried on shore to
look after the women and children, but two who remained begged the
captain to fight for them, and fire at the strangers.

The latter, however, came alongside without fear. Their first question
was for Tupia. On hearing that he was dead, some of them expressed
their sorrow. Among those he saw, Captain Cook did not recognise a
single person he knew when there in 1770, and he concluded, therefore,
that the entire population had changed since then.

The _Resolution_ and _Adventure_ once more proceeded on their voyage, on
the 7th of June, 1773, it being Captain Cook's intention to explore the
unknown part of the Southern Ocean between New Zealand and Cape Horn.
After they had been the greater part of the month at sea, Captain
Furneaux sent word that the scurvy had broken out on board his ship,
that the cook had died, and that twenty men were ill. It appeared that
her people had neglected to eat vegetables while at Queen Charlotte's
Sound, and since they had been at sea, Captain Cook had from the first
insisted on having wild celery, scurvy-grass, and other herbs boiled
with the peas and wheat, both for officers and men. He consequently had
only three men ill, and one alone of scurvy. Instead, therefore, of
continuing the cruise to the southward, he determined to put into
Otaheite. Several low islands, on which cocoa-nut trees grew, were seen
on the way.