He met, likewise, with farther proofs, that the natives of New Zealand are eaters of human flesh.
The morning after Captain Cook's arrival in Queen Charlotte's Sound, he went himself, at daybreak, to look for scurvy-grass, celery, and other vegetables; and he had the good fortune to return with a boatload, in a very short space of time.

Having found, that a sufficient quantity of these articles might be obtained for the crews of both the ships, he gave orders that they should be boiled with wheat and portable broth, every day for breakfast; and with pease and broth for dinner.

Experience had taught him, that the vegetables now mentioned, when thus dressed, are extremely beneficial to seamen, in removing the various scorbutic complaints to which they are subject.
Our commander had entertained a desire of visiting Van Dieman's Land, in order to inform himself whether it made a part of New Holland.

But as this point had been, in a great measure, cleared up by Captain Furneaux, he came to a resolution to continue his researches to the east, between the latitudes of 41 deg.

and 46 deg.; and he directed accordingly, that the ships should be gotten ready for putting to sea as soon as possible.