He saw the youngest of the two sows that Captain Furneaux had put on shore in Cannibal Cove.

She was in good condition, and very tame.

The boar and other sow, if our commander was rightly informed, were taken away and separated, but not killed.

He was told that the two goats, which he had landed up the Sound, had been destroyed by a rascally native of the name of Goubiah; so that the captain had the grief of discovering that all his benevolent endeavours to stock the country with useful animals were likely to be frustrated by the very people whom he was anxious to serve.

The gardens had met with a better fate.