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upon the croud, who perceiving it hollow, inftantly flew
back to the diftance of two or three yards :• he continued to
point this formidable weapon againfl the enemy, whofe
fpears were ftill lifted againfl; him. The meridian fun-
Ihone burning hot upon him ; he had walked the whole
day, was fpent with fatigue, and began to defpair of faving
his life, when a handfome young woman, remarkable for
her flowing curls, which hung down on her bofom, took
pity on his wretched condition. She ftepped forward from
the croud, with the greateft humanity and companion ex-
preflfed in her e ye; innocence and goodnefs were fo'
ftrongly marked in her countenance, that it was impoflible
to diftruft her. She approached, and offered him a piece o f
fliaddock, which was eagerly and thankfully accepted; and'
gradually fupplied him with more, till he had confirmed*
the whole fruit. At laft the boats put off from the fhip, ar
fight of which the whole croud difperfed; only his
generous benefatftrefs, and an old man, who was her father,
remained fitting near Mr. Patton, with that unconcern
which a noble and virtuous conduct infpires. She enquired
for the name of her friend; he told her that which
the Taheitians had given him, Pateenee ; and Hie immediately
adopted it, changing it into Patfeenee. On ftepping
into the boat, he gave her father and her a few prefents,
which he borrowed from the crew, and with thefe they returned
to their groves highly pleafed. When Mr. Patton*
eame
came on board, he acquainted captain Cook with the danger j'J” ;
to which he had been expofed; but though he had only
followed the example of many of his Ihipmates, by repofing
confidence in the natives, yet the lofs of his fowling-piece
was confidered as a proper puniflrment for his imprudence.
The afternoon was fpent in different rambles on fhore. My
■ father, with a fingle failor, walked over a confiderable part
of the ifland, without the leaft moleftation from the inhabitants,
and brought on board a number of new plants.
No other complaints arofe againfl the natives this day, except
fome petty thefts, at which they were expert like
their brethren of Tonga-Tabboo and the Society Iflands.
The next morning early we difcovered feveral iflands to Tueflay ,s.
the N. W. of us, which a haze in that quarter had hitherto
fcreened from our fight. The two weftermoft were high,
one peaked, but the other more extenfive. A thick fmoke
arofe from the laft, on which, during the night, we had
obferved a fire. The natives who came on board acquainted
us that this fire was conftant, fo that we concluded
it to proceed from a volcano. They called this ifland
Tofooa *, and the peak clofe to it e-Ghao f . To the northward
of thefe two we difcerned thirteen low iflands, each of
which the natives named to us.
* Tafman calls it Ara a -T o foa in his map. Ama or ktima probably fignfies a
mountain.
f Tafman calls it Kaybay in his map.
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