Page 315![]() |
Voyages in the Southern Hemisphere, Vols. II - III![]()
|
|||
|
Table of Contents
On this day ... 21 - 22 October 1769 Endeavour Voyage Maps James Cook Joseph Banks Parkinson Description of Poverty Bay Index Search Contact us
|
Description of Poverty Bay (continued) 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° 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 connexions 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 of the Indians at their return, I came to an anchor about one o’clock, in eleven fathom water, with a fine sandy bottom, the north point of the bay N. by E. and the south point S.E. The watering-place, which was in a small cove a little within the south point of the bay, bore S. by E. distant about a mile. Many canoes came immediately off from the shore, and all traded very honestly for Otaheite cloth and glass bottles, of which they were immoderately fond.
© Derived from Vols. II-III of the London 1773 edition: National Library of Australia call no. FERG 7243, pages 317 - 317, 2004 Published by South Seas, using the Web Academic Resource Publisher To cite this page use: http://nla.gov.au/nla.cs-ss-jrnl-hv23-315 |