'778. it than I chofe to fpend, I made the fignal for the Difcovery
i - ' ■ to w e igh and join us. This was done about noon ; and w e
immediately flood away to the Northward, in profecution
o f our voyage. Thus, after fpending more time about thefe
iflands, than was neceflary to have anfwered a ll our pur-
pofes, w e were obliged to leave them before we had completed
our water, and got from them fu ch a quantity o f re-
freihments as their inhabitants were both able and w illin g
to have fupplied us w ith . But, as it was, our fhip procured
from them provifions, fufficient for three weeks at
leaft; and Captain Clerke, more fortunate than us, got, o f
their vegetable produftions, a fupply that lafled his people
upward o f two months. T he obfervations I was enabled to
make, combined with thofe o f Mr. Anderfon, who was a
ve ry u fe fu l affiftant on all fu ch occafions, w ill fu rniih materials
fo r the nest chapter.
C H A P. XI.
!The Situation o f the Ifands novo difcovered.— Their Names,
— Called the Sandwich Ifands Atooi defcribed. The
S o il— Climate— -Vigetable ProduElions.— Birds. Fijh.
•— Domefic Animals.— Perfons o f the Inhabitants.— Their
Difpoftion.— Drefs.— Ornaments.— Habitations.— Food-
— Cookery.— Amufements,— ManufaSlures.— Wot'kingtools.—
Knowledge o f Iron accounted fo r .— Canoes.__
Agriculture.— Account of one o f their Chiefs. Weapons.—
Cuftoms agreeing with thofe o f Tongataboo and.
Otaheite.— Their Language the fame.— Extent of this
Nation throughout the Pacific Ocean.— RefeSlions on the
ufeful Situation o f the Sandwich I f ands.
}T is worthy o f obfervation, that the iflands in the Pa- 177».
cific Ocean, which our late voyages have added to the ■February'
geography o f the globe, have been generally found ly in g in
groups or clutters; the fingle intermediate iflands, as yet
difcovered, being few in proportion to the others ; though,
probably, there are many m ore o f them ftill unknown, which
ferve as fteps between the feveral clutters. O f what number
this newly-difcovered Archipelago confifts, mutt be le ft for
future inveftigation. We faw five o f them, whofe names, as
given to us by the natives, are Woahoo, Atooi, Oneeheow,
Oreehoua, and Tahoora. The la ttis a fmall elevated ifland,
ly in g four or five leagu es from the South Eaft point o f Oneeheowj