akru. We foon returned to the tradins piace with °ur i M f e :
and converfed with the natives, who had now fo -for laid
afide their diftruft, as to part with their arms to us for our
iron tools. Thefe weapons were all made of the club- ,
wood, or cafuarina *, and w e r e either plain fpears, about
eight or ten feet long, or clubs, which commonly had a
large knob at one end. Captain Cook had been very fuc-
cefsful in the meanwhile, having procured a great quantity
of fruit and feveral hogs, with all which we embarked in
our boats at noon. The weather which had been very
warm on fhore, was really much cooler on board,, where the
wind came down in ftrong gufts from the mountains,
fometimes attended with fmall fhovvers.
In the afternoon I remained on board, but my father accompanied
the captain on fhore, and went up the hill a little
way to a wretched hut ; but finding no inhabitants there,
who had probably been alarmed by their fhooting as
birds, he put feveral nails on a few bread-fruit, which he faw
clofe to the but, and then defcended to the beach with fome
botanical acquifitions.
Seven canoes arrived about the (hip from La Dominica
7 * the next morning, whilft feveral others from St. Chriftina
went up the lirait. The former feemed to be of the fame
nation with thofe with whom we were already ac-
# The Taheitians call' it toa, which fignifies war,, becaufe it furnifhes the inftruments
of bloodCied*. ,
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quainted, and brought the fame fruits to fell, which
we had purchafed in this ifland. We went on
fhore after breakfaft, and found our friendly natives af-
fembled on the beach. Among them was a chief, who
was drelfed in a cloak manufactured of the paper-mulberry
bark, like the Taheitian cloth, and who wore the diadem,
the gorget, the ear-pendants, and bunches of hair.
We learnt that this man was the king of the whole ifland,
though he had not great refpect fhewn him. He pre-
fented captain Cook with fome fruits and hogs, and continued
in the neighbourhood of our people the whole day.
He acquainted us that his name was Honoo *, and that he
was he-ia-ai, which was doubtlefs a title correfponding
to the aree of Taheitee, and areekee of the Friendly Iflands.
He feemed to be a very good-natured, intelligent man, a
charafter fo prevalent in his countenance, that Mr. Hodges,
who drew his picture, could not fail of expreffing it, as
may be feen in the print of him, in captain Cook’s account
of this voyage. We enquired for the name of this
ifland and the adjacent ones, and found that St. Chriftina
was called W a i t a h o o , La Dominica H e e v a r o a , and St.
Pedro O n a t e y o . Mahine, who was exceffively fond of
* T h is word fignifies a turtle, or fea-tortoife, in the Taheitian language;
i t is therefore probable that the names o f thefe people fometimes are taken from
animals, like thofe of the North -American Indians. In the lame manner O—^Too^
the name o f the king o f Taheitee, fignifies a heron.