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February Our- plan for procuring,.water anfwered very w e ll; the calks were
'---- ■— J taken the greateft. care of, and were . punctually; and regularly returned ;
fo that by this evening -we-had acquired eight tuns of excellent water. .
Thuifday=8. On thurfday afternoon Kemeecuberrey, the unfortunate widow; of the
late Tcrreeoboo, favored me with a vilit. After lamenting the death of
her hufband, and witneffing nearly the extirpation of his whole race,
Ihe had furvived to this.time in a ftate of captivity. Under thefe melancholy
circuinftances, Are had mét in Tamaahmaah not only a humane and
generous conqueror, but a friend and a proteflor.
During the conflict; at the, resolution, he was under the néceffity of
ufing fome violente to Ihelter, her from the revenge of his: nearell relations,
and the fury o f the mobs who loudly demanded her immediate
execution, and thé lives of all her hulband’s adherents. Although on my
vifit to thefe illands in the year 1779 Ihe was then advanced; in Jife,, yet I
perfectly recolle&ed the features of her countenance. The highdegree
o f fenfibility and vivacity it then poffeffed, now too plainly befpoke the
for row and dejection Ihe had lince experienced.
In a very feeble faultering voice Ihe laid-, that we had been formerly
acquainted, that Ihe had1 come with Tamaahmaah to pay me a vilit and
fee the Hup, préfenting me at thé fame time with a fmall feathered cap,
which was all Ihe.had now in her power to bellow.-: My .name was per-
fettly familiar to her, but my perfon was fo altered, that it' was fome
time before Ihe was quite, reconciled to the .change that fourteen years
had .«produced.,-' Curiofity induced her to vifit moll parts of the Ihip ;
and whilll Ihe was fo engaged, a flight degree ó f cheerfulnefs Teemed to
obtrudes; and for a moment appeared to fufpend the weighty afflictions
that her declining years were fcarcely able to fuftain.. Satisfied .with the
furrounding objeCls, and gratified in her inquiries after many o f the
officers and fome. of the people of the Refofurion and Difcovery, I pre-
fented her with an alfortment of valuables fuitable to her former diftin-
guilhed fituation, and obtained from Tamaahmaah a moll folemn pro-
mife in her prefence, that the articles I had given her Ihould not be
taken from her by himfelf or any .other perfop.
Kahomnotoo,
Kahomnotoo, who with a part of his family had been our conllant ^793-
viiitors in the day time, and whofe good offices had been uniformly ex- ■
erted to the utmoll of his ability in our fervice, took a very friendly
leave on friday morning, for the purpofe of collecting fuch things as Friday 1.
Would be moil acceptable to us after quitting Karakakooa; it being my
intention to vifit Toeaigh previoufly to my departure from this iliand.
On this occafion I prefented him with fome ufeful articles that were
highly, acceptable to him, particularly a fuit of fails made of old canvas
for his largelt canoe, and a cloak of fcairlet cloth made after the falhion
o f that I had given to Tamaahmaah, but not quite fo gaudily decorated.
Mr. Menzies, who had departed:on monday in purfuit of botanical re-
fearches, accompanied by one of the midihipmen of the Difcovery, on
an excurfion into the country, returned to the ihip this morning. He
had been attended by a. guide and. eight people appointed for that purpofe
by Tamaahmaah. From thefe people he had received the greateft
attention and civility, and through all the inhabited parts o f the country
they had pafled, had been treated- with the utmoft refpeCl and hofpi-
tality. ...
Moil of our material bufinefs being by this time accompliihed, our Saturday a.
wood .and water completely replenifhed ; and finding that on application
to the chiefs|a fufficient quantity of refreihments were inftantly fupplied,
I annulled the. order prohibiting a general barter, and gave permiflion
for the purchafing o f curiofities. .
Accompanied-by Tamaahmaah and fome of the officers, I vifited the Sunday 3.
three villages in this b a y; and firft of all the fatal fpot, where Captain Cook
fo unexpectedly, and fo unfortunately for the world, yielded up his valuable
life. This melancholy, and ever to be deplored event, the natives
are at much pains exaCtly to reprefent, to produce reafons for its
taking place, and to (hew that it fulfilled the prophecies o f the priefts,
who had foretold this fad cataftrophe. But as thefe are matters that require
further examination, I (hall defer them to future confideration.
A t this place, as well as at the other villages', the inhabitants, who were
very numerous, behaved with the utmoft civility and decorum. It may
not