opgallant mast, they ran into a violent gale which lasted for a
week, and, after a slight moderation, came on with increased fury, and
the two vessels parted company.

On 3rd November the Resolution reached her old anchorage in Ship Cove,
Queen Charlotte's Sound; but the Adventure was seen no more during the
voyage. Forster was much upset by the stormy weather, "the dreadful
energy of the language" of the sailors, the absence of their consort
which "doubled every danger," the shortness of the table supplies and his
own dislike to a further trip to southern latitudes. Hoping the Adventure
might yet come in, Cook pushed on with his refit, and thoroughly
overhauled his stores. About 4000 pounds weight of ship's bread was found
unfit for food, and another 3000 pounds nearly as bad; they were very
fortunate, therefore, in getting a plentiful supply of scurvy grass and
wild celery, and a small quantity of vegetables from the gardens they had
previously laid out.

Any doubts that may have been felt about the cannibalism of the New
Zealanders was set at rest by some of the officers who surprised a party
engaged in a feast. A human head was purchased from the feasters and
taken on board, and a piece of the flesh being offered to a Maori, it was
greedily devoured. A South Sea Islander, Odidie, was intensely horrified,
and refused to touch the knife with which it had been cut, nor would he
be in any way friendly with the eater. Cook firmly believed that only
enemies killed in battle were eaten, and did not think the custom arose
from any shortness of food.

Enclosing in a bottle, which was buried under a marked tree in the
garden, a memorandum giving the dates of his arrival and departure, the
direction he intended to steer, and other information he thought might be
useful to Furneaux, Cook sailed on 25th November, and as they passed
through the straits, guns were continually fired, and a sharp lookout
kept for signs of the Adventure; but nothing was seen, and as no other
rendezvous had been appointed, Cook gave up all hope of her rejoining
him. The Resolution, when clear, bore up for the south-east, but had the
course at the first been north of east, the two ships might possibly have
met, for the Adventure was then on her way from Tolago Bay and arrived in
Ship Cove four days after the departure of her consort. Cook says his
crew were in good spirits, and in no way dejected, "or thought the
dangers we had yet to go through were