'ember, us fome curiofities, and then went on fhore a bread of the
Ihip; but we did not remember having, ever feen them
before. The next day two wretched canoes joined thefe, in
which was our friend Towahanga with his family*. He
came immediaftely on board, with his little boy Khoaa and
his daughter Ko-parree, and difpofed of a great number of
green nephritic fiones wrought into chiffels and blades of
hatchets. He was introduced into the cabin, where captain
Cook gave him many little prefents, and drefled his little
boy in one of his own white fhirts. The boy was fo overjoyed
at his finery, that we found it abfolutely impolfible
to keep him in the cabin by fair words. He was bent upon
parading it before his countrymen on the deck, and perfift-
ed to importune us till we let him out. His little vanity,,
however, had. the moft difaftrous confequences. An old he-
goat, which went about our decks, to the great terror of all
the New Zeelanders, took offence at the ludicrous figure of
poor Khoaa, who was loft in the ample turns and folds of
his fhirt, and awkwardly trotted along with- felfi-complaeen-
cy. The fturdy mountaineer ftepped in his way, and raiding
himfelf on his hind-legs, butted with his head full,
againll him,, and. laid him fprawling on the deck in an in-
ftant. The unfuccefsful efforts which the boy made tcc
rife, together with his loud lamentations, fo provoked the
goat, that he prepared to repeat the compliment, and would.
* See page 209.
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probably have filenced this knight of the rueful counte-
nance, if fome of our people had not interpofed. His
fhirt was now fullied, and his face and hands covered with
dirt; and in this pitiful plight he returned into the cabin.
His air was quite dejedied, his eyes full of tears, and he
feemed to be perfectly cured of his vanity. He told his
misfortune, crying, to his father ; but far from exciting pity,
he provoked the favage’s indignation, and received feveral
blows as a punifhment of his folly, before we could make
his peace. We cleaned his fhirt and wafhed him all over,
which had perhaps never happened to him before during,
his life, and thus fucceeded to reftore him to his former
tranquillity. However, his father, dreading a future misfortune,
carefully rolled up the fhirt, and taking off his
own drefs, made a bundle of it, in which he placed all the
prefents which he and his fon had received.
The natives continued to fell their artificial curiofities- Friday n,
and fome fifh to our people this day and the following,
both which proved very rainy. On the 12 th, in the morning,
the weather being clear again, Dr. Sparrman, my father,
and myfelf, went to the Indian Gove, which we found uninhabited.
A path, made by the natives, led through the foreft
a confiderable way up the fteep mountain, which fcparates-
this cove from Shag Cove *. The only motive which could*
induce the New Zeelanders to make this path, appeared to-
* See the chart of"Cook’ s Strait in Hawkefworth’s Compilation, vo!.\ II;.
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