1787. Towards eleven o’clock, being nearly abreaft Whititte Bay, the
S e p tem b e r . £ ' n g> s ref}dence, he left us, with many profeflions of friend-
fhip, frequently repeating the word proha ; or, I wifh you a good
voyage and a fair wind.
In the afternoon, and during the night, we had light variable
winds, the weather clofe and fultry. In the'morning of the 14th,
a moderate breeze fprung up at N. N. E. At noon, the South
Weft point of Whahoo bore South 75 degrees Eaft j and the North
Weft point North 83 degrees Eaft, about eight leagues diftant.
During the afternoon and night, we had light baffling winds,
With intervening calms. At eight o’clock in the morning of the
15th, we faw King’s Mount, Atoui, which bore North Weft by
Weft half Weft, nine leagues diftant. At noon we had a light
Eafterly breeze and clear weather. The meridian altitude gave
21 deg. 43 min. North latitude. At fix in the afternoon, the extremes
of Atoui bore from North 20 deg. Weft, to South 85.
deg. Weft; diftant from fhore four or five leagues.
The evening being cloudy and dark, at feven o’clock we hauled by
the wind to the Southward, and tacked occafionally during the night.
At five in the morning of the 16th, we bore up and made fail, with
a light Eafterly breeze. By nine o’clock we were within two miles
of the Eaft fide of Atoui. A number of the natives prefently
came along-fide, bringing us potatoes and taro, which we purchafed
for nails. Our latitude at noon was 21 deg. 52 min. North.
We kept Handing along fhore for Wymoa Bay; but the wind
being light and variable, it was doubtful whether we fhould be
able to effect: our purpofe. Great numbers of canoes now came
along-fide the veffel; and many of the people were rejoiced to fee
us
us again: numbers of them a Iked after Po P ote, and feemed concerned * ^ j )Cr
that he was not in our company. On our aiking after Abbenooe i_— ,--- ,
and his fon Tyheira, the people told us they were both at Oneehow.
- About five o’clock, our old friend Long-Ihanks came on board;
he was fo rejoiced to fee his former acquaintance, that tears ran
down his cheeks, and it was feme time before he became perfectly
calm and collected. From him we learned that Abbenooe was on
fhore at Attoui, and npt at Oneehow, as we had been informed.
The little breeze we had during the afternoon dying away, at
f ix o ’c lo c k w e came to with the fmall bower, in nineteen fathom
water, over a fandy bottom, about two miles to the Eaftward of
our former fituation.
Soon after this Tyheira came on board, and (on our aiking after
Abbenooe) began to tell us a very lamentable ftory, the purport
of which was, that fince We left Atoui, a fhip had been there;
that the Captain ufed the inhabitants very ill, and even killed fe-
veral of them; that on this account his father durft not come to
us, not knowing our veffel at fo great a diftance. Captain Dixon
told him, that no trade whatever fhould be carried on until Ab-
benooe had been on board; on which Tyheira immediately fent a
canoe to fetch his father, and at the fame time hoifted a fignal, to
let him know that he might come fafely. This had the defired
effect, for in lefs than half an hour we had the pleafure of feeing
our good friend Abbenooe on board, and he was no lefs pleafed to
fee his old acquaintance again; but feemed ferry that Captain
Portlock (or Po Pote, as he called him) was not with us. From
what Tyheira. had told us refpefting the ftrange veffel, we were
inclined to think that it was Captain Meares who had quarrelled
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