>774- April. \ t» vo their heads. We afterwards difeovered feveral fmall iflands, and at length, on the 2 ad of April, came to anchor for the fecond and laft time off Otaheite, where we remained till the fourteenth of May. Various circumftances contributed to render our abode here more delightful than before. ' We now procured many more interefting informations touching this country and people, than were known before. On the 2d of June we were informed by fome of the inhabitants, that two fhips had landed at Huabeine or Ovabeine, one o f which was larger than ours. By fub- fequent accounts from Spain we know, that this fhip was from the Spaniih fettlements in America; and that the year before, during our ftay at Otaheite, fome o f the crew belonging to a Spaniih ihip had been left there, one o f whom had adtually hid himfelf in a crowd of people, 011 being, though drefled in the Indian fafhion, taken by an Englilh failor for a Europtean, and accordingly accofted by him 'in the French language. This, with feveral other circumftances, makes it highly probable, that the Spaniih ihips were fent both years to be ipies upon us, and to make reprifals upon us in return for our vilits in a part o f the world of which they are fo extremely jealous, and of which they look upon themfelves as the foie proprietors; efpecially confidering that previouily to this they have, merely on account of their carrying on an illicit commerce, punilhed many Engliihmen, by condemning them to hard labour in their mines. (See the Gottingen Magazine for 1780, No. I. p. 75.) After we quitted Otaheite we paid a vifit to Huabeine and Ulitea, likewife for the fecond and laft time ; leaving on the latter ifland a fenlible youth, who about eight months .months before had had the,courage to come oh board o f us. jV+- His name was-O.F.DiDE, though otherwife called Ma h e in e . t / y V On the 4th of June we failed from Ulitea, and on the 6th paffed by Hove's ifland. On the 16th we difeovered Ralmerjlonds ifland, and on the 20th Savage ifland, fo called from our being received by the favages there in a very hoftile manner. They hit me on the arm with a large ftone, .and threw a javelin among us. For which reaibn we did not .ftay to anchor here, but went on to Namocka, or Neiv Rotterdam., one o f the friendly ifles above-mentioned. In the fame vicinity we law feveral iflands, betides thofe difeovered by T a sm a n , and upon one o f them there appeared a volcano. On the 2d o f July we defcried a fmall inhabited ifland, which we called Slur tie IJland, and the next day:made a hafty landing there. On the 16th we came to the iflands difeovered by Qu Iros, which M. Bo u g a in v i l l e inveftigated more narrowly, calling them the Cyclades', but Captain C ook, who now difeovered a greater number o f them, gave to the whole o f this Archipelago the name of the New Hebrides, Off one of thefe, to which we gave the name of Mallicola, we caft anchor on the 2 2d o f July. iHere we found a diminutive, race o f people,with a language peculiar to themfelves, and poifoned weapons. They received us in a friendly manner, notwithftanding which there happened a ikirmiih between u s ; however, after flaying there a couple of days, we parted friends. On the 3d o f Auguft we anchored for a few hours before Irromanga, a newly difeovered ifland, the inhabitants of which offered to detain our captain and boat, an attempt which many of them paid for with their lives, although but
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