.*7*9* far the fhip raighfthe dri^eh ffom th i i^ h d in thfe <nigbt;
■L — L‘_. This I explained to them,, and they. reluctantly eonfented
tofeaveus^ They,were very folicitous that fomabody from
, the fhip fhotild go on, fhore with them * and juft before they
quitted, us, -they gave me a wooden fpeaar, which was the
only things the paddles ■ excepted* they had brought with
them in the canoe. It was a common long ftaff, pointed
with the itatf-Wtrod.
The. ifland of Wytootacfeee is-about ten miles in circuit ;
itsdatitude -from i8Q 50' to 180 54' S’, andlongitudd 200° igf E.
A group ofimall keys^-eight in number* lie to the SE, four
ervfiye miles diftant from V^ytootackee, and a frhglpbnecto,
t?he W;SW; the fbuthernmoft: .of the group is in latitude
i8»;5t'S..JiS?krtation‘o f the'toaapafs S" 14' E. -
The people that .came off tons-did not differin appearance
from thfi.natiyesi-of Hervey’s Jflands, f^eni in .Gaptaip Go.pk’s>
laft voyage* though much more-friendly and inoffenfive-fin
their manners* They were tattowecf aGEofsthef arms^and legs*
but natron the loins or pofferidfspike the. people;@^'ftlahelt^
From their knowledge of iron, they havpdouhdf fs^cqmm p-
nication, with Hervey’s iflands, which are* not' more,- than1
eighteen leagues -diftant from them» |
..In the night, a breeze fprung tip from the -feipthjrancl*-
we continued'dur co'nrfe to the weft ward.
: On the i8th, at fun-fet, we faw .Savage - IfLand j, and-in-
the nighty pafled by to the fouthward of it.
yuefday 2i. At eleven o’clock in the forenoon of the 21ft, wpfaw’fhe
iflandGaowpfrhm the maft-head, bearing N W:byCW-1 . W.-
This ifland is a high mountain,,with-a fliarp-pointedtop*-
and issthe.nortbweftern©oft of all the Friendly. JflaridS,' At
noon we faw it very diftindtiy from the deck* , it being
then niheteeh leagues diftantj^nitidsv
The
The wind beipgrto the^{HptbWaEd,',$ve’ could not fetch1
Annamooka, at which ifland I intended to flop, before the
^evening of? the' tod,-wheA'we rdntehored in the road, in
■ twenty-three 'fathoms; the 'extremes of Annamooka bearing
'E-xby N andiS by E'i our diftafecel from the* fhore. being half
a, league?.* ’In the middle; pf) th& dayy a canoe,‘had" torn'e off
.toms from the ifland Mango, in which was.a;chief, named
-Jbatoqmy-lange, whb dined with me; i Immediately, on
but anchoring, feveraf:■ can oas game -alortg-iide^with .yams
and cocoa-nuts, hut none of the natives-offered tpiiprnebn
hoard, without firft afkinp peimi-ffion AsUyetj I, had fepn.
,no?perfon with whom b could.1 recofledt to .have been,«formerly
acquainted! I madblebquirtes after feme pfjfUir old
friends, particularly the* chiefs* Hut I found >m-yfel:f nqt fuf-
ficiently mafteroftbetlaiiguage- to obtain’theimforaj&tiOn
F waritedvv?'
Friday the 24th!' Our ftation; ■ b%ih§bi'nconvenient for
watering* at daylight we weighed,' and - workedmpre to the
eaflfward, wheremv.e ‘anchored in* f wenty-onetdathoms’ thje-
extremes' of Amiamooka bearing ■ N- Sg0 E/ andiS ^3? W;, the
Sandy^My-'^S .yg.VE,; our, diffailee fronri the, fhbre, half a
leaguer »Sounded all round'the fhip, 'anflifouhd^ the ground,
to .bo a.coarfe Goral' bottom!,! but with'eyed foundings.-,.
By this time, fome large:fatilingi.eapaes*.twere. arrived,from
different iflands in the neighbourhoodof Annamooka; and
an oldflame man* .naniedcTepa, whom Ishadjkno\ynin 1777,
and-, immediately reGolIebted, | caine on bbard., > Two other
chiefs, whpfo names*wefe‘,N,©bcahoa and Kunacappo* were
with him, -yTepa having, formerly, been acetiftomed tdfobr
manner of fpeaking theb-language, I found'd, could ijpB'-r
verfe' with,’ him tohrably well. He informed me, that
Eoulaho, Feenow,* and1 Tubow, were alive, sand at Tonga-
. taboo*
1789-
Thurfday 23*
Friday xfy