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CHAP. VIII.
M e A r r iv a l o f the Endeavour at O taheiu, called hy Captain
W a llis, K in g George the I I L 's IJland. Rules eftablifhed
fo r Traffic with the N a tiv es, and an Account o f fe v e ra l
Incidents which happened in a V iffi to Tootahah and
Toubourai Tatnaida, two Chiefs.
A B O U T one o’clock, on Monday the 10th of April, fome | | > A of the people who were looking out for the ifland to
which we were bound, faid they faw land ahead, m that
part of the horizon where it was expected to appear; but it
was fo faint that, whether there was land in fight or not, re-
mained a matter of difpute till funfet. The next morning, » j .
however, at fix o’clock, we were convinced that thofe who
faid they had difcovered land, were not miftaken; it aPPeared
to be very high and mountainous, extending from W. by .
S to W by N. iN. and we knew it to be the fame that
Captain Wallis had called King George the III.’s Ifland. We
were delayed in our approach to it by light airs and calms,
fo that in the morning of the i ath we were ut itt e near r
than we had been the night before; but about feven a breeze
fprung up, and before eleven feveral canoes were fieee making
towards the fliip there were but few of them, bo'vever,
that would come near; and the people m thofe that did,
could not be perfuaded to come on board. In every canoe
there were young plantains, and branches of a tree which
the Indians call E’Midho; thefe, as we afterwards learnt, wei
brought as tokens o f peace and amity, and the people in tinj
of the canoes handed them up the G u p 's H making igna^