got the better of his indignation; and desiring to be an eye witness of what had been doubted by his countrymen at home, he ordered a piece of the flesh to be broiled and brought on the quarter deck, where it was devoured by one of these cannibals with surprising avidity. Many on board were made sick by the shocking spectacle. Oedidee stood for some time petrified with horror, and when aroused from this state of stupor, he burst into tears, and wept and scolded by turns, calling them vile men, to whom he could no longer be a friend. He would not suffer them to touch him; and looked with disgust even on the knife that had cut the human flesh, and the gentleman who had used it.
It was understood that these natives had made an expedition into Admiralty Bay, to the westward; where, among others, this youth had been killed by them in battle. On the 24th, some of the gentlemen revisiting the spot, saw the heart still stuck on the canoe, and the intestines lying on the beach; except the liver and lungs, supposed to have been eaten, after the rest of the carcase had been devoured.
While the Resolution lay here, the ship's company were well supplied with fresh vegetables; and the pork salted at Ulietea, and covered with pickle, was still excellent. Not an individual was now sick.
Having taken every thing on board, our navigator sailed on thursday, the 25th; after depositing in the garden at the Cove, under the root of a tree, a bottle containing a letter to Capt. Furneaux, and inscribing on the stump of the tree the words "Look beneath." By this prudent device, Capt. Furneaux, who arrived only five days after,
