'7?7^\ the fea. In this manner, it may be fuppofed, that the na-
tives o f Wateeoo have increafed their catalogue by the addition
o f Otaheite and its neigh bourin g ifles, from the people
w e met with there, and alfo o f the other iflands thefe had
heard of. We may thus account for that exterifive kn ow led
g e attributed, b y the gentlemen o f the Endeavour *, to
T u p ia , in fuch matters. And, w ith all due deference to his
veracity, I prefume that it was, by the fame means o f in formation,
that he was able to direft the fhip to Oheteroa,
withou t h a vin g ever been there himfelf, as b e pretended ;
w hich, on many accounts, is ve ry improbable.”
* Hawkefworth’ s Collection, V o l. ii. p. 278..