The attack, however, was not so violent as the former one had been.

He had reason to believe, that the return of his disease was owing to his having exposed and fatigued himself too much at Easter Island.
On the 6th and 7th of April, our navigators came within sight of four islands, which they knew to be the Marquesas.

To one of them, which was a new discovery, Captain Cook gave the name of Hood's Island, after that of the young gentleman by whom it was first seen.

As soon as the ship was brought to an anchor in Madre de Dios, or Resolution Bay, in the Island of St.Christina, a traffic commenced, in the course of which the natives would frequently keep our goods, without making any return.

At last the captain was obliged to fire a musket-ball over one man, who had several times treated the English in this manner.