Accordingly, Captain Cook has marked the situation of the Marquesas with his usual correctness.

He has also taken care to describe the particular cove in Resolution Bay, in the island of St.
Christina, which is most convenient for obtaining wood and water.
It is remarkable, with respect to the inhabitants of the Marquesas Islands, that collectively taken, they are, without exception the finest race of people in this sea.

Perhaps they surpass all other nations in symmetry of form, and regularity of features.

It is plain, however, from the affinity of their language to that of Otaheite and the Society Isles, that they are of the same origin.

Of this affinity the English were fully sensible, though they could not converse with them; but Oedidee was capable of doing it tolerably well.
From the Marquesas, Captain Cook steered for Otaheite, with a view of falling in with some of the islands discovered by former navigators, and especially by the Dutch, the situation of which had not been accurately determined.