Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ^ 9 300 AX EUA OF XEW DEPARTURES. [1742 The Oil the ord of June the transit of Venus was observed, and S^ds. ^^1® ships left on the 13th of the same month. This visit ofCooks resulted in the first thorough exploration of the mostcelebrated of all the smaller Pacific islands and of the attendantgroup called the Society Islands. The elaborate observationsnow made upon the habits, government, religion, morals (
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ^ 9 300 AX EUA OF XEW DEPARTURES. [1742 The Oil the ord of June the transit of Venus was observed, and S^ds. ^^1® ships left on the 13th of the same month. This visit ofCooks resulted in the first thorough exploration of the mostcelebrated of all the smaller Pacific islands and of the attendantgroup called the Society Islands. The elaborate observationsnow made upon the habits, government, religion, morals (orimraorals), and character of the Tahitians were invaluable forfuture work, and gave quite an improved conception of the New. A XATIVE DAXCE AT OTAHEITE, ArXER J. 13. CirPJAXI.(Hav-kcsxcortWs Voyages, 1773.) function of an explorer. It was not merely a discovery of newlands, but a complete description of new races, that was nowaimed at. Thievish without rascality, licentious without shameand without malice, amiable and confiding to excess, theTahitians, as Cook found them, were true children of the 15th August Cook finished his discoveries among theSociety Islands, and on the Ttli of October arrived off the north-east coast of New Zealand at a point he named Poverty , xhis great island had been visited in 1042 bv Tasman, but hadbeen neglected by explorers since that time. The natives here EXPLORATION. 301 1784] were found to be very different from the amiable cannibals as they were, they threatened their visitorson the latter attempting to land; but Cook coasted in safety thewhole eastern shore of the north island, from Cape Turnagain tothe North Cape, after which he
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