Tane, till he faw a breeze fo near, that he knew it muft reach the fhip before his prayer was concluded.

On the 16th we founded near the north-west part of the island of Huaheine, but found no bottom at 70 fathoms. Several of the canoes put off; but the Indians feemed fearful of coming near the bark till the fight of Tupia removed their apprenfions. They then came along fide, and the king of the ifland, with his queen came on board. They feemed furprised at every thing that was fhewn them, but made no enquiries after any thing but what was offered to their notice. After fome time they became more familar; and the king, whose name was Oree, asa token of amity, proposed exchanging names with Captain Cook, which was readily accepted.

Having anchored in a fmall harbour, we went on fhore with Mr. Banks and fome other gentlemen, accompanied by the king and Tupia. As foon as we landed, Tupia covered himself as low as the waift, and defired Mr. Monkhoufe to do the fame. Being feated, he now began a fpeech, or prayer, which lafted about twenty minutes; the king, who flood oppofite to him anfwering in what feemed, fet replies. During this harangue, Tupia delivered, at different times, a handkerchief, a black filk neckcloth, fome plantains, and two bunches of feathers, all which we carried on board. Thefe ceremonies were confidered as a kind of ratification of a peace between us and the king of Huaheine.

On the 17th we went again on fhore, and made an excurtion into the country, the productions of which greatly resembles thofe of Otaheite; the rocks and clay feemed, indeed, more burnt: the boat-houses were curious and remarkably large. The level part of the country affords the most beautiful landscapes that the imagination can poffibly form an idea of.

On the 19th we offered the natives fome hatchets, for which we procured three very large hogs. As we intended

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intended to fail in the afternoon, king Oree, and othe of the natives came on board to take their leave. Capt. Cook prefented to Oree, a pewter plate, ftamped with this infcription, "His Britannic Majefty's fhip Endeavour, Capt. Cook, commander, 16th July, 1769." We gave him alfo fome medals, refembling our English coin, which he promised to keep, in order to remember us.

On the 20th, by the direction of Tupia, we anchored in a bay, formed by a reef, on the north fide of the ifland. Two canoes foon came off from the fhore, and the natives brought with them two fmall hogs, which they exchanged for fome nails and beads. The captain, Mr. Banks, and other gentlemen now went on fhore, accompanied by Tupia, who introduced them with the fame kind of ceremonies that had taken place on their landing at Huaheine; after which Capt. Cook took poffeffion of this and the three neighbouring islands, Huaheine, Otaha, and Bolabola, in the name of his Britannic Majefty.

On the 21ft the mafter was fent to infpect the southern part of the island, and a lieutenant was dispatched in the yawl to found the harbour where the Endeavour lay. While the Captain went in the pinnace, to take a view of that part of the island which lay to the northward. Mr. Banks and the gentlemen went again on dhore, trading with the natives, and fearching after the productions and curiofities of the country.

The hazy weather and brifk gales prevented us from getting under fail till the 24th, when we put to fea, and fteered northward within the reef, towards an opening, at the distance of about fix leagues, in effecting which we were in danger of ftriking on a rock, the man who founded, crying out on a fudden," two fathoms," which could not but alarm us greatly; but either the mafter was mistaken, or the fhip went along the edge of a coral rock, many of which in the neighbourhood of these islands are as fteep as a wall.

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The bay where the Endeavour lay at anchor, called Oopoa, is capacious enough to hold a great number of fhipping, and fecured from the fea by a reef of rocks. Its fituation is off the eafternmoft part of the island. The provisions confift of cocoa-nuts, yams, plantains, and a few hogs and fowls. The country round about the place were we landed, was not fo plentiful as at Otaheite or Huaheine. The fouthernmoft opening in the reef, or channel into the harbour, by which we entered, is little more than a cable's length wide; it fies off the easternmoft point of the island, and may be found by a fmall woody ifland, which lies to the southeaft of it, called Oatara; north-weft from which are two other iflands called Opururu and Tamou. Between thefe is the channel through which we went out of the harbour, and it is a full quarter of a mile wide.

On the 25th we were within a league or two of the island of Otoha; but could not get near enough to the land, the wind having proved contrary. In the morning Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander went in the longboat with the master, in order to found a harbour on the caft-fide of the island, which they found fafe and convenient. We then went on shore and purchased a large quantity of plantains, and fome hogs and fowls. The produce of this ifland was much the fame with that of Ulieta, but feemed to be more barren,

We then made fail to the northward, and at eight o'clock on the 29th, we were under the high peaks of Bolabola. We found the island inacceffible in this part. On the 30th we difcovered an ifland which Tupia called Maurua, but faid it was fmall, furrounded by a reef, and without commodious harbour, but inhabited, and nearly yielded the fame produce as the adjacent islands. In the afternoon, finding ourselves to windward of fome harbour that lay on the weft fide of Ulieta, we intended to put into one of them, in order to ftop a leak which had fprung in the powder room, The wind being right against us, we plied on and off

till the afternoon of the 1ft of Auguft, when we came to an anchor in the entrance of the channel, which led into one of the harbours.

On Wednesday the 2d, when the tide returned, we came into a proper place for mooring, in 28 fathom. Many of the natives came off, and brought hogs, fowls, and plantains, which were purchased upon moderate Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander went on fhore, and spent the day very agreeably the natives fhewed them great refpect: being conducted to the houses of the chief people. In one house they obferved fome very young girls dreffed in the neatest manner, who kept their places waiting for the ftrangers to accoft them; thefe girls were the most beautiful the gentlemen had ever seen.

In one of the houfes we were entertained with a dance. The performer put upon his head a large piete of wicker-work, about four feet long, of a cylindrical form, covered with feathers, and edged round with fhark's teeth. With this head-drefs, he began to dance with a flow motion; frequently moving his head, fo as to describe a circle with the top of his wicker-cap, and fometimes throwing it fo near the faces of the byeftanders as to make them jump back; this they confidered as an excellent piece of humour, and it always produced a hearty laugh, when practifed upon any of the English gentlemen.

On Saturday the 5th, fome hogs and fowls, and feveral large pieces of cloth, many of them being fifty or fixty yards in length, together with a quantity of plantains and cocoa-nuts, were fent to Capt. Cook, as a prefent from the Earee Rahie of the island of Bolabola, accompanied with a meffage, importing, that he was then on the ifland, and intended waiting on the Captain. On the 6th the king of Bolabola did not vifit us agreeable to his promife; his absence, however, was not in the leaft regretted, as he sent three young women to demand fomething in return for his prefent. After

dinner, we fet out to pay the king a vifit on fhore. As this man was the Earee Rahie of the Bolabola man, who had conquered this, and were in dread of all the neighbouring islands, we were greatly disappointed, inftead of finding a vigorous enterprising young chief, to fee a poor feeble old dotard, half blind, and finking under the weight of age and infirmities. He received us without either that ftate or ceremony which we had hitherto met with among the other chiefs.

On Wednesday the 9th, having stopped a leak, and taken on board a fresh flock of provifions, we failed: out of the harbour: and though we were feveral leagues diftant from the island of Bolabola, Tupia earneftly intreated Capt. Cook, that a fhot might be fired towards it; which, to gratify him, the captain complied with. It was supposed to have been intended by Tupia as a mark of his refentment against the inhabitants of that place, as they had formerly taken from him large poffeffions which he held in the ifland of Ulietea, of which island Tupia was a native, and a fubor dinate chief, but was driven out by these warriors.

Being detained longer at Ulietea in repairing the fhip than we expected, we did not go on fhore at Bolabola; but after giving the general name of the Society Islands, to the islands Huaheine, Ulietea, Bolabola, Otaha, and Maurua, which lies between the latitude of 16 deg. 10 min, and 18 deg. 65 min. fouth, we pursued our course standing southwardly for an island, to which we were directed by Tupia, at about 100 leagues diftant. This we difcovered on the 13, and were informed by him it was called Obiterea.

On the 4th we ftood in for land, and faw feveral of the inhabitants coming along the fhore. One of the lieutenants was difpatched in the pennace to found for ancorage, and to obtain what intelligence could be got from the natives concerning any land, that might be farther to the fouth. Mr. Banks, Dr. Solander and Tupia went with the lieutenant in the boat. When

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