CHAP. vir.
A rriva l at Ulietea.— AJlronomical Obfervations.— A Marine
deferts, and is delivered up.— Intelligence from Omat.
' InflruElions to Captain Clerke.— Another Defection of
a Midjhipman and a Seaman.— Three o f the chief Perfons-
o f the I f and confined on that Account.-— A Defign to
' fc ix e Captains Cook and Clerke, difcovered,— The two
Deferters brought back, and the Prisoners releafed— The
Ships fa il.— Refrefhments received at Ulietea.— Prefent
and former State o f that Ifiand.— Account o f its dethroned
King, and o f the late Regent o f Huaheine.
KtJJmber. H P H E boat w hich carried Omai aihore, never to join us
«--------^ again, ha vin g returned to the ihip, with the remainder
o f the hawfer, w e hoiited her in, and immediately flood
over fo r Ulietea, where I intended to touch next. At ten
o ’clock at night, we brought to, till four the next morning
when w e made fail round the South end o f the iiland, for
the harbour o f Ohamaneno*. We met with calms and
lig h t airs o f wind, from different directions; by turns ; fl>
that, at noon, we were ftill a league from the entrance o f
the harbour. While we were thus detained, my old friend
Oreo, C h ie f o f the ifiand, with his fon, and Pootoe, his fon-
in-law, come off to vifit us.
* See a plan o f this harbour, in Hawhefvrorth's Collection, V o l. ii.- p. 248.
Being
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November.
Being refolved to pufh fo r the harbour, I ordered all the
n01í d, ° Ut’ and fent them a‘ head to tow, being
affifted by a flight breeze from the Southward. This b r e e z f
wh ich I S \ and being fucceeded by one from the Eaft,
w h ich b lew righ t out o f the harbour, we were obliged to
come to an anchor, at its entrance, at two o’clock, and to
warp m, w hich employed us till n ight fet in. As foon as
w e were with in the harbour, the ihips were furrounded
w ith canoes filled with people, who brought hogs and fru it
^ b a r t e r with us for our commodities; fo lh a t , wherever we
went, w€ found plenty.
and br i the 4th’ 1 m° 0red the he*d * * * *
bour h f t0 1 N o rth lh o re> at th« bead o f the harthe
b L l lS UP ihC Cabks on d€ck * and opened one o f
l L d l l i; I ra m thÍS a flight ftage was made to the
and, being at the diftance o f about twenty feet, w ith a view
m get d e a r o f fome o f the rats that continued to infeft us.
T h e Difcovery moored along-fide the South fhore for the
fame purpofe. While this w ork was g o in g forward I r e -
turned Oreo’s vifit. T h e prefent I made him, on t í e o c c a
fion, con fifted o f a linen gow n, a ihirt, a ^ f e a t h e r e d cap
rom Tongataboo, and other things o f lefs value. I then
brought him, and fome o f his friends, on board to dinner
farvninhf t r n m ;T “ " W S ° bf™ ories’ and got the necef- s.
fary mftraments on fhore. T h e two fo llow in g days, we
all the r >S aZimuths’ both on board and aihore, with
all the compaifes, in order to find the variation; and in the '
b y the m '1 h* i ' ^ ’ ° bPerved an occultation o f | Capricorn,
the t im ' o T S f rk Iimb‘ M f- S t t and 1 agreed
Íonds and l S l apPT ng’ at flX minutes and fifty-four ie-
conds and a half, paft ten o ’clock. Mr. K in g made it h a lf a
cond fooner. Mr. Bayly obferved with the achromatic telefcope