ones; rafps; files ; and knives, are much fought after;
Red cloth ; and linen, both white and coloured ; looking-
glafles, and beads, are alfo in eftimation; but, of the latter,
thofe that are blue, are preferred to all others; ahd-
white ones are thought the leaft valuable. A firing of large
blue beads would, at any time, purchafe a hog. But it muft
be obferved, that fuch articles as are merely ornaments,,
may be highly efteemed at one time, and not fo at another.,
When we firft arrived at Annamooka, the people there
would hardly take them in exchange even for fruit; but
when Feenou came, this great man fet the fafliion, and,
brought them into vogue, till they rofe in their, value to*
what I have juft mentioned.
In return for the favourite commodities which I have'
enumerated, all the refrefliments may be procured that the
iilands produce. Thefe are, hogs, fowls, fifli, yams, breadfruit,
plantains, cocoa-nuts, fugar-cane, and, in general,,
every fuch fupply as can be met with at Otaheice, or any o f
the Society Iilands. The yams of the: Friendly iilands are
excellent, and, when grown to perfection, keep very well at
fea. But their pork, bread-fruit, and plantains, though far
from defpicable, are, neverthelefs, much inferior in quality
to the fame articles at Otaheite, and in its neighbourhood-
Good water, which ihips, on long voyages, ftand fo much
in need of, is fcaree at thefe iilands. It may be found, it is.
true, on them all j. but, ftill, either in too inconfiderable
quantities, or in iituatious. too inconvenient, to ferve the
purpofes of navigators. However, as the iilands afford?
plenty of provifions, and particularly of cocoa-nuts, ihips.
may make a tolerable ihift with fuch water as is to be got
and if one is not over-nice, there will be no want. While
we lay at anchor, under Kotoo, on our return from Hapaee,.
ibme
Tome people, from Kao, informed us, that there was a ftream
of water there, which, pouring down from the mountain,
runs into the fea, on the. South Weft fide of the iiland ; that is,
on the fide that faces Toofoa, another iiland remarkable for
its height, as alfo for having a coniiderable volcano in it,
which, as has been already mentioned, burnt violently all
the time that we were in its neighbourhood. It may be
worth while for future navigators, to attend to this intelligence
about the ftream of water at Kao? efpecially as we
learned that there was anchorage on that part of the.coaft.
The black ftone, of which the natives of the Friendly Iilands
make their hatchets, and other tools, we were informed, is
the production of Toofoa,
Under the denomination of Friendly Iilands, we muft include,
not only the group at Hapaee, which I vifited, but
alfo all thofe iilands, that have been difcovered nearly
under the fame meridian, to the North, as well as feme
others that have never been feen, hitherto, by any European
navigators; but are under the dominion of Tongata-
boo, which, though not the largeft, is the capital, and feat
o f government.
According to the information that we received there, this
Archipelago is very extenfive. Above one hundred and
fifty iilands were reckoned up to us by the natives, who
made ufe of bits of leaves to afcertain their number ; and
Mr. Anderfon, with his ufual diligence, even procured
all their names. Fifteen of them are faid to be high, or
hilly, fuch as Toofoa, and Eooa; and thirty-five o f them
large. Of thefe, only three were feen this voyage; Hapaee
(which is considered by the natives as one iiland), Ton-
gataboo, and Eooa: of the fe e of the unexplored thirty-
two, nothing more can be mentioned, but that they muft
1 be