May9' ^ r’ ®an^s an<^ ®r> Solander attended the next morning in
’----.----- their ufual capacity of market-men,WedneC a. f ■ but ve1 r■ y• • few Indians
appeared, and thofe who came brought no provifions. Too-
tahah, however, fent fome of his people for the canoe that
had been detained, which they took away. A canoe having
alfo been detained that belonged to Oberea, T upia, the perfon
who managed her affairs when the Dolphin was here, was
fent to examine whether any thing on board had been taken
away: and he was fo well fatisfied of the contrary, that he
left the canoe where he found it, and joined us at the fort,
where he fpent the day, and flept on board the canoe at night.
About noon, fome fifhing boats came abreaft of the tents,
but would part with very little of what they had on board I
and we felt the want of cocoa-nuts and bread-fruit very fe-
verely. In the courfe o f the day, Mr. Banks walked out into
the woods, that by converting with the people he might recover
their confidence and good-will: he found them civil,
but they all complained of the ill-treatment of their Chief;
who, they faid, had been beaten and pulled by the hair. Mr.
Banks endeavoured to convince them, that he had fuffered
no perfonal violence, which to the belt of our knowlege was
true -, yet, perhaps the Boatfwain had behaved with a brutality
which he was afraid or afhamed to acknowledge. The
Chief himfelf being probably, upon recollection, of opinion
that we had ill-deferved the hogs, which he had left with us
as a prefent, fent a meffenger in the afternoon to demand an
ax, and a fhirt in return; but as I was told that he did not
intend to come down to the fort for ten days, I excufed my-
felf from giving them till I fhould fee him, hoping that his
impatience might induce him to fetch them, and knowing
that abfence would probably continue the coolnefs between
us, to which the firft interview might put an end.
The
The next day we were Hill more fenfible of the inconvenience
we had incurred by giving offence to the people in
the perfon of their Chief, for the market was fo ill fupplied
that we were in want of necelfaries. Mr. Banks therefore
went into the woods to Tubourai Tamaide, and with fome
difficulty perfuaded him to let us have five bafkets of breadfruit;
a very feafonable fupply, as they contained above one
hundred and twenty. In the afternoon another meflenger
arrived from Tootahah for the ax and lllirt; as it was now
become abfolutely necelfary to recover the friend (hip of this
man, without which it would be fcarcely poffible to procure
provifions, I fent word that Mr. Banks and myfelf would vifit
him on the morrow, and bring what he wanted with us.
1769. May.
rX hurfday 4-.
Early the next morning he fent again to remind me of my Friday 5.
promife, and his people feemed to wait till we fhould fet out
with great impatience: I therefore ordered the pinnace, in
which I embarked with Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander about
ten o’clock: we took one of Tootahah’s people in the boat
with us, and in about an hour we arrived at his place of re-
fidence which is called Eparre, and is about four miles to
the weftward of the tents.
We found the people waiting for us in great numbers
upon the fhore, fo that it would have been impoffible for us
to have proceeded, if way had not been made for us by a
tall well-looking man, who had fomething like a turban
about his head, and a long white flick in his hand, with
which he laid about him at an unmerciful rate. This man
conduced us to the Chief, while the people fhouted round
us, TaioTootahah, “ Tootahah is your friend.” We found him,
like an ancient Patriarch, fitting under a tree, with a number
of venerable old men Handing round him; he made a
fign to us to fit down, and immediately afked for his ax ;
Qjj this