very dark colour, and having faces like monkeys. The letter R abounds in their language. They express their admiration by hissing like a goose.
Leaving Port Sandwich on the 23rd, the Resolution proceeding in a S.E. course, passed the islands of Ambrym, Paoom, and Apee. A group of small isles lying off the S. E. point of Apee, the Captain named Shepherd's Isles, in honour of his friend Dr. Shepherd, Plumian Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge. Among these isles, the ship was for some time becalmed, on the 24th; and was in danger of being driven on shore by currents. At this time, most of the officers were seized with violent pains in the head and bones, and were otherwise disordered, in consequence of having dined on two reddish fish, like a large bream, caught in Port Sandwich. A hog and a dog, which had partaken of this poisonous fish, died; and a week or ten days elapsed before all the gentlemen recovered. Some of the isles which the Resolution passed on the 25th, in her progress southward, were named from their most striking features; one being called, Three Hills; another, Two Hills; and a third, the Monument. This last, being a steep rock, accessible only to birds, was the only island on which no people were seen. To the south of these, many other islands were met with; the largest, which presented a most delightful prospect, richly diversified with woods and lawns, was named Sandwich Island; and the names Montagu and Hinchinbrook were conferred on the two that were next in size.
Standing towards the S.E., our navigator, on the 27th, discovered another large island, the name of which was found to be Erromango; but owing
