encountering so many dangers, and performing such arduous services, for their King and country, were barbarously slaughtered and devoured by the cannibals of New Zealand. Had the party been of sufficient force to have ascended the hill near them, on the top of which they saw a large fire, they might there have seen the flesh of their comrades roasting for a banquet to the crowd of savages met. on the spot, or they might have seen their bones from which the flesh had been already picked. Some of the remains found on the beach they brought on board; including the hand of Thomas Hill, another hand which was known to be Mr. Rowe's, and the head of Capt. Furneaux's black servant. These remains were solemnly committed to the deep. None of their arms nor clothes were found, except part of a pair of trowsers, a frock, and six shoes, no two of which were fellows. As it appeared certain that the whole boat's crew had perished, Capt. Furneaux did not think it prudent to risk another boat up the Sound, to make any further inquiry; and as none of the natives were seen during the next four days, while the ship was detained by contrary winds, nothing more was then known on the subject.
Pedero and others who now visited Capt. Cook, and who had no hand in the massacre themselves, could easily have given him a true narrative of this event, had they not dreaded incurring his displeasure. It was when he visited this place again, in his third voyage, that he ascertained the particulars of this melancholy affair. Mr. Rowe and the boat's crew, having collected the bundles of celery, had sat down to dinner, while several natives were near them, headed by a chief named
