*iew, in his inquiries, at prefent, than a defire of making fufficient preparation for difmiffing us with presents. fuitable to the refpect and kindness with which he had received us. For, on our telling him we should leave the island on the next day but one, we obferved a fort of proclamation was immediately made, through the villages, to require the people to bring in their hogs, and vegetables, for the king to prefent to the Orono, on his departure..

The next day, being fixed for our departure, Terreeoboo invited Capt. Cook and myself to attend him, on the 3d, to the place, where Kaoo refided. On our arrival, we found the ground covered with parcels of cloth; a vast quantity of red and yellow feathers, tied to the fibres of cocoa-nut hufks; and a great number of hatchets, and other pieces of iron-ware, that had been got in barter from us. At a little distance from thefe, lay an immenfe quantity of vegetables, of every kind, and near them was a large herd of hogs. At first we imagined the whole to be intended as a prefent for us, till Kaireekeea informed me, that it was a gift, or tribute, from the people of that district to the King ; and, accordingly, as foon as we were feated, they brought all the bundles, and laid them severally at Terreeoboo's feet; fpreading out the cloth, and difplaying the feathers and iron-ware before him. The King feemed much pleased with this mark of their duty; and having felected about a third part of the iron-ware, the fame proportion of feathers, and a few pieces of cloth, these were fet afide, by themselves; and the remainder of the cloth, together with all the hogs and vegetables, were afterwards prefented to Capt. Cook and myself. We were aftonished at the value and magnitude of this prefent, which far exceeded every thing of the kind we had feen, either at the Friendly or Society Islands. Boats were immediately fent, to carry them on board; the large hogs were picked out, to be falted for feafore;

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ftore; and upwards of thirty smaller pigs, and the ve getables, were divided between the two crews.

The fame day, we quitted the Morai, and got the tents and aftronimical inftruments on board. The charm of the taboo was now removed; and we had no fooner left the place, than the natives rushed in, and fearched eagerly about, in expectation of finding something of value, that we might have left behind. As I happened to remain the last on fhore, and waited for the return of the boat, feveral came crowding about me and having made me fit down by them, began to lament our feparation. It was, indeed, not without difficulty, I was able to quit them. And here, I hope I may be permitted to relate a trifling occurrence, in which I was principally concerned. Having had the command of the party on fhore, during the whole time we were in the bay, I had an opportunity of becoming better acquainted with the natives, and of being better known to them, than those whofe duty required them to be generally on board. As I had every reafon to be fatisfied with their kindness, in general, fo I cannot too of ten, nor too particularly, mention the unbounded and conftant friendship of their priests.

On my part, I fpared no endeavours to conciliate their affections, and gain their cfteem; and I had the good fortune to fucceed fo far, that when the time of our departure was made known, I was strongly folicit ed to remain behind, not without offers of the moft flattering kind. When I excufed myself, by faying that Capt. Cook would not give his confent, they propofed that I fhould retire into the mountains; where, they faid they would conceal me, till after the departure of the thips; and on my farther affuring them, that the Captain would not leave the bay without me, Terreeoboo and Kaoo waited upon Capt. Cook, whofe fon they supposed I was, with a formal request, that I might be left behind. The Captain, to avoid giving a positive refusal, to an offer so kindly intended, told them, that he

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could not part with me, at that time, but that he fhould return to the island next year, and would then endeavour to fettle the matter to their fatisfaction.

Early in the morning of the 4th, we unmoored, and failed out of the bay, with the Difcovery in company, and were followed by a great number of canoes. Capt. Cook's defign was to finish the furvey of Owhyhee, before he visited the other iflands, in hopes of meeting with a road better fheltered, than the bay we had juft left; and in cafe of not fucceeding here, he proposed to take a view of the S. E. part of Mowee, where the natives informed us we fhould find an excellent harbour.

Capt. Cook had calm weather for three fucceeding days, which much impeded his progrefs; and, at midnight, on the 8th, a violent gale came on, which greatly damaged the fore-maft of the Refolution. This circumftance, which proved fo fatal to Capt. Cook, obliged him to return to Karakakooa Bay, and to take up his old ftation there, till the dangers he had fuftained could be properly repaired.

As the repairs of the Refolution required fome time, the aftronomical apparatus was got afhore, and the tents pitched on the morai, or burying place, where a guard of a corporal and fix marines were ftationed. The friendly correfpondence was renewed with the priefts, who, for the greater fecurityof the workmen, and their tools, tabooed the place where the maft lay, fticking their wands round it as before. But notwithstanding this friendly behaviour of the priests, it was a matter of great furprife, that when the fhips came to anchor, their reception was very different from what it had been on their firft arrival; no fhouts, no buftle, no confufion, but a folitary bay, with only here and there a canoe ftealing clofe along the thore. These fufpicious circumftances gave rife to many conjectures, but whatever these were, things went on in their usual, quiet courfe till the afternoon of the 13th.

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Towards the evening of that day, the officer who commanded the watering party of the Discovery, came to inform me, that feveral chiefs had affembled at the well near the beach, driving away the natives, whom he hired to affift the failors in rolling down the casks to the fhore. He told me, at the fame time, that he thought their behaviour extremely fufpicious, and that they meant to give him fome farther difturbance. At his request, therefore, I fent a marine along with him, but fuffered him to take only his fide arms. In a fhort time the officer returned, and on his acquainting me, that the natives had armed themselves with stones, and were grown very tumultous, I went myself to the spot, attended by a marine, with his musket. Seeing us approach, they threw away their ftones, and, on my speaking to fome of the chiefs, the mob were driven away, and those who chose it, were fuffered to affift in filling the casks. Having left things quiet here, I went to meet Capt. Cook, whom I saw coming afhore in the pinnace. I related to him what had just passed; and he ordered me, in cafe of their beginning to throw ftones, or behave infolently, immediately to fire a ball at the offenders. I accordingly gave orders to the corporal to have the pieces of the centine's loaded with ball, inftead of fmall fhot.

Soon after our return to the tents, we were alarmed by a continual fire of mufkets, from the Discovery, which we observed to be directed at canoe, that we faw paddling toward the fhore, in great hafte, pursued by one of our mail boats. We immediately concluded that the firing was owing to fome theft, and the Captain ordered me to follow him with a marine armed, and to endeavour to feize the peopie as they came on fhore. Accordingly we ran toward the place where we fuppofed the canoe would land, but were too late; the people having quitted it, and made their escape into the country before our arrival.

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We were at this time ignorant, that the goods had been already restored; and as we thought it probable, from the circumftances we had at firft obferved, that they might be of importance, were unwilling to relinquith our hopes of recovering them. Having therefore enquired of the natives, which way the people had fled, we followed them, till it was near dark, when judging ourselves to be about three miles from the tents, and fufpecting, that the natives, who frequently encouraged us in the purfuit, were amufing us with falfe informations, we thought it in vain to continue our search any longer, and returned to the beach.

During our abfence, a difference, of a more serious and unpleasant nature, had happened. The officer, who had been fent in the fmall boat, and was returning on board, with the goods which had been restored. obferving the Captain and me engaged in the pursuit of the offenders, thought it his duty to seize the canoe, which was left drawn up on the fhore, Unfortunately, this canoe belonged to Pareea, who arriving, at the fame moment, from on board the Discovery, claimed his property, with many proteftations of his innocence. The officer refusing to give it up, and being joined by the crew of the pinnace, which was waiting for the Captain, a fcuffle enfued, in which Pareea was knocked down, by a violent blow on the head with an oar. The natives, who were collected about the spot, and had hitherto been peaceable spactators, immediately attacked our people, with fuch a fhower of stones, as forced them to retreat, with great precipitation, and fwim off to a rock at fome diftance from the thore. The pinnace was immediately ranfacked by the natives, and but for the timely interpofition of Pareea, who feemed to have recovered from the blow, and forgot it at the fame instapt, would foon have been entirely demolished.. Having driven away the crowd, he made figns to our people that they might come and

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