e marines, while two or
three guns were fired from the ship to alarm Mr Forster, who was on
shore. Several of the natives remained, who acted with their usual
courtesy, and long before the marines arrived Mr Clerke's gun was
brought back. As the other was not restored, two large double
sailing-canoes were seized by the marines on their landing; and one man,
making resistance, was fired at with small shot. This showed the
natives that the English were in earnest, and the musket was returned;
but an adze had also been carried off, and it was insisted that this
also should be brought back. The chiefs thought that the captain wanted
the man who had been wounded, and whom they said was dead. Soon
afterwards he was brought up, stretched out on a board, and apparently
lifeless. Captain Cook was very much shocked at first, till, examining
the body, he found that the man was alive and only slightly hurt. His
wounds were dressed by the surgeon, who soon afterwards arrived, and a
poultice of sugar-cane was applied to prevent inflammation. A present
recompensed to some extent what the poor man suffered. No person of any
consequence was seen by the voyagers while they remained here. Several
lofty islands were seen in the group--among them Amattagoa, whose summit
was veiled in clouds, and was rightly supposed to be a volcano. Many of
the islands in the South Seas are volcanic, and in some of them the
volcanoes are in full activity. That of Kilanea, in the Sandwich
Islands, often presents a spectacle of awful fury and grandeur.

After leaving the Friendly Islands, and calling, on July 1, at Turtle
Island, a brisk gale carried the ship on for some distance, till, on the
15th, high land was seen to the south-west. This was the _Australia del
Espirito Santo_ of Quiros; it also went by the name of the great
Cyclades. After exploring the coast for some days, the captain came to
an anchor in a harbour in the island of Mallicollo, where one of his
objects was to open friendly communication with the natives.

A number of these came off, some in canoes, others swimming. They
exchanged arrows tipped with bone for pieces of cloth, while two who
ventured on deck received presents. The next morning so many made their
appearance, and with such increased confidence, that after a large
number had boarded the ship it was found necessary to refuse admittance
to others. Upon this one of the repulsed natives threatened to shoot a
boat-k