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Toward night we faw an ifland. called, by T o o b a i a h , Tetiroah, and altered
our courfe a little to the weftward, fleering for the ifland of Yoolee-Etea, the native
place of Toobaiah.
On the 14th, we difcovered the ifle of Huaheine, which is high land, but the
wind being againft us, we could not reach i t ; we therefore tacked about, and took a
ftretch toward an,ifland that we faw at a diftance, which Toobaiah told us was
Yoolee-Etea.
In the afternoon of this day it was almoft calm; and we had but little wind- till
the next.day, being the'15th: at noon we had a fine breeze; and at five i,n the
afternoon were within .fix leagues of the ifland of Huaheine. It was made up of
feveral peaks of high land, .and .divided, like Otaheite, by foifie lower land intervening.
The ifland appeared to be almoft as large again as Eimayo; and, from
the maft-head, we could difcover the tops of the mountains, of Yoolee-Etea, over
thofe of Huaheine.
Toobaiah praying in the afternoon, in the ftern-windows, called out, with much
f e r v o r , O Tane, ara mai, matai, oramaimatai; which is to fay, Tane (the god
of his Morai) fend to me, or come to me with a fair wind; but his prayer proving
ineffeftual, he faid, Woomde waow, I am angry. However, he told us that
■we fhould have wind when the fun arrived at the meridian, and fo it happened,
though we did not impute to him the gift of prophecy or forefight.
Toobaiah told us they often had wars with the natives of Atiarabo, a neighbouring
ifland; and that, when they take any of them prifoners, they cut off their
under-jaws, and hang them up.' Several of thefe trophies of vidtory Mr. Banks
faw hung up in a man’s houie at Atiarabo, in one of his excurfions among the
people of Oboreano, at a time when they had made prifoners Oroamo’s four brothers,
and two of Qboreah’s, and had taken all her canoes.
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