When the matter was explained, it was acknowledged that not a single inhabitant, or a single Englishman, had been hurt.

This groundless consternation displayed in a strong light the timorous disposition of the people of the Society islands.
Our navigators were as successful in procuring provisions at Ulietea as they had been at Huaheine.

Captain Cook judged that the number of hogs obtained amounted to four hundred or upwards: many of them, indeed, were only roasters, while others exceeded a hundred pounds in weight; but the general run was from forty to sixty.

A larger quantity was offered than the ships could contain; so that our countrymen were enabled to proceed on their voyage with no small degree of comfort and advantage.
Our commander, by his second visit to the Society islands, gained a farther knowledge of their general state, and of the customs of the inhabitants.

It appeared, that a Spanish ship had been lately at Otaheite, and the natives complained, that a disease had been communicated to them by the people of this vessel which according to their account affected the head, the throat, and the stomach, and at length ended in death.