1785. The Voyage of THE CONTENTS. 26th, Oreo, the chief of Ulietea, with h THE next ifland which captain Cook vi In the night, between the 12th and 13th, On the 24th, the defertion of a midship- captain Clerke and lieutenant Gore, as the Of It is to be observed, that the inhabitant On the 8th of December, captain Cook Leaving the island of Bolabola, capt ight between the 22d and 23d crofled the ne in the longitude of 2030 15' E. On he 24th, they difcovered an island, which hey called Christmas island, a small, barren, nd uninhabited fpot. Here they caught great numbers of turtle; and obferved an clipfe of the fun. Having weighed anchor, n the 2d of January 1778, they refumed heir courfe to the northward, and, on the 8th discovered several islands in the latitude of 21° 12' N. and longitude 200° 41' E. For one of these they steered; and, at firft, rere in fome doubt whether or no it was inabited. Hower, they foon faw feveral ca oes coming off from the fhore towards the hips, which were immediately brought to, to give them time to join. They had from hree to fix men each; and, on their approach, it was an agreeable furprise to find hat they fpoke the language of Otaheite, and of the other iflands lately visited. It required but little addrefs to get them to come Hong-fide; but no entreaties could prevail ph any of them to come on board. The cap tain tied fome medals to a rope, and gave them to thofe in one of the canoes, who, in return, tied fome mackarel to the rope, as an equivalent. Their behaviour feemed perfectly inoffenfive; and they had no arms of any kind, except fome fmall ftones, which they had evidently brought for their defence, and which they threw away when they found they were not wanted. Captain Cook proceeding to coaft along the land, in fearch of anchoring ground, thefe canoes left him; but others came off, bringing with them roafting pigs, and fome fine potatoes, which they exchanged as the others had done, for whatever was offered to them. Several fmall pigs were purchafed for a fixpenny nail. The next morning, they met with feveral more cances filled with people, fome of whom took courage, and ventured on board. In the courfe of my feveral voyages,' fays captain Cook, I never before met with the natives of any place fo much aftonifhed, as these people were, upon entering a fhip. Their eyes were continually flying from object to object; the wildness of their looks and geftures fully expreffing their entire ignorance about every thing they faw, and frong ly marking to us, that, till now, they had never been vifited by Europeans, nor been acquainted with any of our commodities, except iron; which, however, it was plain, they had only heard of, or had known it in fome fmall quantity, brought to them at lome diftant period. They feemed only to understand, that it was a fubftance, much better adapted to the purpofes of cutting, or of boring holes, than any thing their own Country produced. They afked for it by the name of temonte, probably referring to fome 6 inftrument, in the making of which iro could be usefully employed; for they appliec that name to the blade of a knife, thoug! we could be certain that they had no idea o that particular inftrument; nor could they, at all, handle it properly. For the fame reafon, they frequently called iron by the name of toe, which, in their language, fignifies a hatchet, or rather a kind of adze. On afking them what iron was, they immediately anfwered, We do not know; you know what it is, and we only understand it as toe, or hamaite. When we fhewed them fome beads, they afked firft, What they were; and then, whether they fhould eat them." But on their being told, that they were to be hung in their ears, they returned them as ufelefs. They were equally indifferent as to a looking-glafs, which was offered them, and returned it for the fame reafon; but fufficiently expreffed their defire for hamaite and toe, which they wished might be very large. Plates of earthen-ware, china-cups, and fuch other things, were fo new to them, that they asked if they were made of wood; but wifhed to have fome, that they might carry them to be looked at on fhore. They were, in fome refpects naturally well bred; or, at leaft, fearful of giving offence, alking, where they should fit down, whether they might fpit upon the deck, and the like. Some of them repeated a long prayer before they came on board; and others, afterwards, fung and made motions with their hands, fuch as we had been accustomed to see in the dances of the islands we had lately vifited. There was another circumftance, in which they alfo perfectly refembled thofe iflanders. At firft, on their entering the fhip, they endeavoured to steal every thing they came near; rather take it openly, as what we either fhould not refent, or not hinder. We foon convinced them of their miftake; and if they, after fome time, became lefs active in appropriating to themfelves whatever they took a fancy to, it was becaufe they found that we kept a watchful eye over them. However, one of the natives having stolen the butcher's cleaver, leaped overboard, got into his canoe, and haftened to the fhore, the boats pursuing him in vain. The Pleasures of Fox-Hunting, or the Wight on Horfeback The Pleafures of Fox Hunting, or the Wight on Horfeback. 66 tals Warhip's dogs and horfes were nd he was on the point of beftrid, Sawny Brifle, his fhoc-mached with the huntfman's new tand, and his hat in the other, and himfelf humbly before his The was a new delay. At another res have given his beast the spurs, ve the ceremonious "pleaje your with the thong of the whip; but he at that moment, with the day, wd, and all the world. Well, have you brought home the And a charming pair they are, ,"replied Sawny, making half with his head, which he meant "Well, and pray Mr. Sawny, d you rather have, your money hunt this morning?" "'Icod, cur, (replied Sawny, looking very d at the fame time, fcratching dbeth is beft." "Then, by my Mr. Sawny, faid the Squire, you th." Holla, you groom, bring a horfe; bring Peacock. The apron were now thrown off, and a fhort working-jacket, which character, having got his heels prepared to mount the gelding provided for him; and, while held the bridle in one hand, and in the other, Sawny begged his bufand times for the trouble he The next moment he was aftride boldly at the Squire's elbow; but, y for him, the beaft on which ted, being fomething old, and the day before, moved very fifty. Sawny apply the whip; the fpurs effect, though buried in the poor des, for Sawny's heels were ftuck dy to him as if they had grown there. ripped and he fpurred, and whipped red again, but to no purpofe, and now a imall diftance behind his broman, which grieved him more at length, taking courage, "'Icod, our, faid he, raifing his voice, I now what ails your honour's horfe, an't get him on, though I have ufed rs to make him trot, and it is "Oh well, replied his worung, he is old and ftiff, but when I am fure he will be better." er rode on about half a mile furand le a fecond Hudibrass,— *Tho' with kicks and bangs he ply'd, The further and the nearer fide,' 13 to as Little effect as all his former and he could not forbear, at every three yards, to tell his honour how ly he was mounted. the dogs opened;-the huntf brated; his worship gave God 13 thanks, and Sawny's horfe pricked up his ears; they were all attention; -the opening encrcafed;-Peacock fnorted, and made two or three joyful paws against the ground. Yelp! yelp! yelp!- -Tallyho roared the huntfman as the fox broke cover; tallyho echoed the Squire; and Sawny, not to be worse than another, joined his tallyho to the number, but with a look and accent which fufficiently indicated that he was thinking of Amen.-(For, by the bye, Sawny was a very devout man, and was remarkable or his refponfes at church.)--Hallo, there he goes! there, he goes!-Off with the dogs and horfes, and the poor spavined garran, on which Sawny was mounted, dashed with the fpeed of a buck acrofs the plain; the first two fteps He loft the stirrup and the rein, 2 Even fo did Sawny; he next loft his breath, and his fight was beginning to fail him, with fuch speed did the late defpifed veteran carry his unworthy rider.-Shame for a time kept him filent, but fear conquered his fhame, and, with a loud voice, he roared,"Oh! your honour, won't you let me down! I have a wife and seven small children! God Almighty blefs your honour and stop!". "Stop! quoth his worship! why, d-n your b--d, is not that open worth all the wives in the world?"-"Oh, your honour, 'tis very fine, but I'd give a thoufand guineas that I was down."-" Ob fure it is only an old fpavined garran you have got, give him the fpurs."-O I beg your honours and your honours worship's pardon, I thought fo while ago, but he's a very capital beaft, long life to your noble honour's worship and take me down." Down! the devil a down." A view a view! a view!-ten times fafter went the horfes, and Sawny having loft all hope from mortals, applied himself to Heaven, and twixt every jolt repeated fome part of the litany, Our father which"-Oh your honour my life is jolted out" art in Heaven"--(off went his hat) -"Glory be to the father? Oh your honour have compaffion on me!" Three perfons and one God;" a violent jolt-" As it was in the beginning"-I have a wife, your honour, I have a wife!-Tallyho! talİyho! fafter and fafter; the Squire was obliged to exert himself, for Sawny rede right before him, and, unfortunately too for Squire, they both rode against the wind; all was not right; the Squire doubled his fpeed; Saway's horfe was too generous to be outdone, he ftretched more vigorously than ever-the Squire held his notes-from the liany he got K into the commandments, and from the com- Effay on the Drefs of the Ladies. I Ovid. Lately faw a print of a lady of quality fitting to the operations of a frifeur, with thefe words written under: The Folly of 1771. -But this folly was far from being the product of 1771: it is indeed of antient standing, and hath probably prevailed more or lefs in all ages of the world. We trace it diflinctly to the Chriftian Æra; for St. Peter, speaking of the adorning of women, would not have it to be that "outward adorning of plaiting the hair, or wearing of gold and fine cloaths, but the hidden ornament of a meek and quiet fpirit, which," I prefume, from the fcarcity of it," is faid to be of great price" 2 had nothing near the effect of a fingi of Lewis 14th, 1699, which brought down in an inftant; and which the Bayle obferves, that if crowned knew their firength in this refpect, or ufe it, they might avail more than a preachers upon earth." The form and ftructure of the dreffes now in fashion with us, are k to all; and if they were not, I could defcribe them.-I muft needs wonder, mean time, at that ftrange propenfityi fex, to difguife and make themfel different from what their Creator deí "God never made his them to be. for man to mend," fays a poet of our but our ladies, are far from thinking him on the contrary, to judge from perpetual employ, they fhould feem fuaded, that their very exiftence has no object, end, or meaning, but to imp their natural felves by artificial decora This they fometimes do, as at prefen high heads and high heels: and in bot the tragic actors of his age: "The devil cur the guilt which Tertullian impute he, mounts them on bufkins, in ord make Jefus Chrift a liar, who has faid, no one can add a cubit to his flature :" text he elsewhere applies to the ftructur on the headt. At other times, inftead of lengthe they take a fancy to dilate and broaden t peries: under which rotunda form Ade felves by fpacious hoops and expanding I remember, pleasantly compares the the place, after much looking about, "an Ægyptian Temple, where the Ic Tertullian and Cyprian, early fathers of discovered at length to be nothing more the church, have left profeffed difcourfes a lttle black Monkey, enshrined in the against the luxury of the female drefs, and of it." I know, indeed, that the b petticoats is fupposed to have been introd fpecify among other things the fpurious ornaments of the head. Synefius, a chriftian as a matter of convenience, as well as bishop of the fifth century, defcribes a bride ment; but I know too, that it perfectl as walking about like Cyble with turrets fex, of fwelling themfelves beyond their incides with that prevailing paffion in on her head." The heathen writers alfo tural fize. The proportions of the h have noted this extravagance; and Juvenal form are in like manner deftroyed, by p particularly mentions the orders or stories of this kind of architecturef. Thus you might nee women do their feet. Both pra ing in and contracting the waift, as the follow these head-dreffes, with small intermiffions, through the writers of every age former is more pernicious, as it lays a are equally abfurd and unnatural; bu down to the prefent. They prevailed in France in the 15th century, when says one of their hiftorians, "the ladies were exceffive in their drefs, and wore wonderfully high and broad horns; having on each fide two ears fo large, that it was impoffible for them to come through a doorf." This was about 1428, when Conecte, a Monk, preached furioufly against them, but his preaching N O T E S. * Epift. 3. + Tot premit ordinibus, tot adhuc com- dation for innumerable ailments. Painting the skin is another art they have the teftimony of a primitive doct improve their perfons, in which alfo the will of God to ufe paint or black gainst them; who affirms it " contra N O T E S. Dict. CONECTE. note E. Tragados cothurnis extulit, quia n proteft adjicere cubitum unum ad ftat fuam. Mendacem facere vult Chri De Spectac. c. 23. de cultu Virgin. c. Spectatre, No. 127. Efay on the Drefs of the Ladies. hair, because our Lord has faid, Thou canst at make cat bair subite or black*. I am not friendly deep in the mytery of the ri kamp, to be able to give any accurate cription of it; but every body knows, that warented upon the fame principle, and rated for the fame purpose, of mending God's works by the arts of men t. And, as if to difguife was to perfect the are not their interiora made to keep par with their outward manœuvres? Imean, at their tempers, fpirit, and inward fe, all as artificially modelled, and as borly concealed, as their perfons in the defcribed above? When mifs fets out boarding fchool, the ufually takes leave Implicity and truth of appearance. She lager to look, fit, fpeak, or do any thing, as nature directs, and as fhe used de; but to regulate all her movements, adjft all her attitudes, according to difand rules of art. She is not to confr what he really is, or what the ought to , but how he will appear; and thus, by eway, is gradually led to enjoy nothing is own fake, but only fo far as it excites iration in others. She muft learn to terfeit and diffemble every affection of heart. She must know how to rejoice to grieve without any emotion at all; ad, on the contrary, to feem as calm and a the fnowy top of Ætna without, the', pertaps, like this fame volcano, there N OTE S. Cyprian, de habitu virginum. 15 may be very warm, unruly, and tempeftúous doings within. Now, under all this cumberfome affectation of drefs and manners, which leaves no will, no fentiment, no principles, no character,-may not one fay, with the poet in my motto-the the real girl is the least part of berfelf? We have a coarfe vulgar proverb, as indeed ours chiefly are, that Joan is as good as my Lady in the dark;" but trick out Joan as artificially as my Lady, and 'darknefs in the cafe will be no ways neceffary. Joan will then, be as good as my Lady in the light; that is both Joan and my Lady being equally difguifed, their fpecific differ ences will be as little feen and as little perceived at mid-day, as they would at midnight. I have only to caution my reader not to fancy me fuch a favage as would decry all culture of body and mind. On the contrary, I would have both the one and the other improved and adorned as much as may be; but I would have this done naturally, and unaffectedly. Inftead of artilizing nature, to fpeak like Montaigne, I would have us to naturalize art. While we co-operate with nature, we cannot labour too much in the cultivation of ourfelves; but when we force, or rather contradict her, by fubftituting a fantaftic piece of mummery in her tead, then far from mending this form divine, as we prefumptuoufly imagine, we do indeed degrade and fink it below buman*. Z. The Cyprian calls adulterating the works On the Analogy between Animals and of God, and then goes on: Cutem medica Vegetables. Llandaff. unguunt, genas rubore maculant. By Dr. Richard Watfon, Lord Bishop of picet illis nimirum plaftica Dei. Quam indignam nomine Chriftiano faciem kam geftare, effigiem meutiri! It is curife this good father figuring them to agination as rifing from the dead with de artificalities about them: an cum (Extraded from an unpublished Pamphlet, entitled, "An Efay on the Subjects of Chemistry, and their General Divifion.” YSTEMATIC diftinctions, and specific well, et purpurifio, et illo ambitu capitis, S divifions of things, areufeful in enlarging hrgatis Ibid. The wanton defire of admiration," done, very knowing in her department, es more women than any other weak the fex is fubject to." Con. Phil. Apology. the comprehenfion of the mind; by methodizing the objects they feem to extend the boun daries of knowledge: but having no real foundation in nature, they fhould not be depended on too far; they often perplex or impede the progrefs of a curious enquir er. It was, I fuppofe, this spirit of artifice This prepoffeffion in favour of fyfte diffimulation, which made the celebrate matic arrangements, operates more forcibly Madame de Maintenon esteem her own upon us as the ideas to which it is ufually infinitely more dangerous than ours. annexed become the more abftracted. The Be circumfpect," fays the to a young female frongeft analogies are overlooked, the ed," "in your connections with women. plaineft reafonings thought fallacious, and You had better be feen with fome men at an decifive experiments inconclufive, when ta, than with fome women at a fermon:" their tendency is to fubvert a diftinction, circonfpecte dans vos liaifons avec les of which we had wrongly fuppofed naEne. Il vaut vieux etre vue a l'Opera ture herfelf the author. Every one thinks tel homme, qu' avec telle femme au that he knows what an animal is, and how Lettes N O T E. |