The  benevolent  efforts  of  Cook,  in  the  former  part  of  hts  voyage,  had
not  been  attended  with  any  striking  efect.  Most  of  the  animals  were
destroyed,  and  the  gardens  suffered  to  run  wild.  Yet  he  was  not
weary  of  weD-doing.  At  the  bottom  of  the  West  Bay  he  ordered  to  be
landed,  as  privately  as  possible,  three  sows,  one  boar,  two  cocks,  and
two  hens.  To  the  people  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Ship  Cove  he  gave
a  boar,  two  cocks,  two  hens,  and  a  young  sow.  The  two  goats  which
he  left  on  a  prior  visit  had  been  destroyed  by  a  bloody.jninded  native
of  the  name  of  Goliah ;  just  as  any  strange  animals  which  should  be
discovered  loose  in  England  would  be.  Captain  Cook  replaced  them
with  two  others,  the  last  he  had  remaining ;  but,  as  if  it  were  forbidden
by  destiny  tliat  New  Zealand  should  be  a  land  of  goats,  the  buck  went
mad,  and  drowned  himself  in  the  sea.
Our  Commander  was  under  the  necessity  of  punishing  several  of  his
men  very  severely  for  the  robberyi  of  a  New  Zealand  hut,  in  which
were  deposited  the  gifts  received  by  some  chiefs  from  the  English.  The
Ne^v  Zealanders,  prone  as  they  were  to  pilfer,  had  a  sufficient  horror  of
theit  when  they  were  themselves  the  sufferers  by  it;  and  Cook  would
nerer  allow  retaliation  to  be  a  plea  for  violating  their  property.
