Eriday 14.
Saturday 15.
'Sunday 16.
Huah-eine.
At fix o’clock in the morning of the 14th, the weftermoft
part of E im e o , or York Ifland, bore S. E. 4 S. and the body
of Otaheite E. 4 S. At noon, the body of York Ifland bore
E. by S. 4 S.; and Port-Royal bay, at Otaheite, S. 70° 45' E.
diftant 61 miles; and an ifland which we took to be Saunders’s
Ifland, called by the natives T a p o a m a n a o , bore
S. S. W. IJTg alfo faw land bearing N.W.4 W, which Tupia
faid was Huaheine.
On the 15th, it was hazy, with light breezes and calms
fucceeding each other, fo that we could fee no land, and
made but little way. Otir. Indian, Tupia, often prayed
for a wind to his god Tan?, and as often boafted of his fuc-
eefs, which indeed he took a very efledtual method to fecure,
for he never began his addrefs to Tane, till he faw a breeze
fo near that he knew it muft reach the fhip before his orai-
fon was well over.
On the 16th, we had a gentle breeze; and in the morning
about eight o’clock, being clofe: in with the north weft part
of the ifland Huaheine, we founded, but had no bottom with
80 fathom. Some canoes very foon came off, but the people
Teemed afraid, and kept at a diftance till they difcovered Tupia,
and then they ventured nearer. In one of the canoes
that came up to the Ihip’s fide, was the King o f the ifland and
his wife. Upon affurances of friendfliip, frequently and
■ earneftly repeated, their Majefties and fome others came on
board. At firft they, were ftruck with aftonilhment, and
wondered at every thing that was fhewn them ; yet they
made no enquiries, and feeming to be fatisfied with what
was offered to their notice, they made no fearch after other
objedts of curiofity,. with which it was natural to fuppofe a
building of fuch novelty and magnitude as the Ihip mull
abound. After fome time, they became more familiar. I
was
was given to underftand, that the name of the king was 1769-
Obe e , and he propofed, as a mark of amity, that we Ihould 1—
exchange names. To this I readily confented; and he was Sutlda)' 1
Gookee, for fo he pronounced my name, and I was Oree, for
the reft of the time we were together. We found thefe
people to be very nearly the fame with thofe of Otaheite, in
perfon, drefs, language, and every other circumftance, except,
if Tupia might be believed, that they would not fteal.
Soon after dinner, we came to an anchor, in a fmall but
excellent harbour on the weft fide of the ifland, which the
Natives call O w h a r r e , in eighteen fathom water, clear
ground, and fecure from all winds. I went immediately a-
Ihore, accompanied by Mr. Banks, Dr. Solander, Mr. Monk-
houfe, Tupia, King Cookee, and fome other of the natives
who had been on board ever fince the morning. The moment
we landed, Tupia ftripped himfelf as low as the waift,
and defired Mr. Monkhoufe to do the fame: he then fat
down before a great number of the natives, who were collected
together in a large houfe or fhed; for here, as well as
at Otaheite, a houfe confifts only of a roof fupported upon
poles ; the reft of us, by his defire, Handing behind. He
then began a fpeech or prayer which lafted about a quarter
of an hour, the King who Hood over againft him every now
and then anfwering in what appeared to be fet refponfes. In
the courfe of this harangue he delivered at different times
two handkerchiefs, a black filk neckcloth, fome beads, two
fmall bunches of feathers, and fome plantains, as prefents to
their Eatua, or God. In return for thefe, he received for our
Eatua, a hog, fome young plantains, and two fmall bunches •
of feathers, which he ordered to be carried on board the
Ihip. After thefe ceremonies, which we fuppofed to be the
ratification of a treaty between us, every one was difmiffed
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