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as the day before, but in no great quantity. Many, however, who called themfelvesearees, or chiefs, came on board, partly with a view of getting prefents, and partly topilfer whatever came in their way.
One of this fort of earees the captain had moft of the day in the cabin, and madeprefents to him and all his friends, which were not a few. At length he was caughttaking things which did not belong to him, and handing them out at the quarter-gallery. Many complaints of the like nature were made to him againfl thofe on deck,which occafioned his turning them all out of the fhip. The cabin guefl made goodhafte to be gone.—The captain was fo much exafperated at his behaviour, that after hehad got fome difiance from the fhip, he fired two mufquets over his head, which madehim quit the canoe and take to the water. He then fent a boat to take up the canoe;but as file came nearer the fhore, the people from thence began to pelt her with ftones.Being in fome pain for her l'afety, as Ihe was unarmed, he went himfelf in anotherboat to protect her, and ordered a great gun, loaded with ball, to be fired along thecoaft, which made them all retire from the fhore, and he was fuffered to bring awaytwo canoes without the leaf!: fhew of oppofition. In one of the canoes was a little boy,who was much frightened; but he foon diffipated his fears, by giving him beads, andputting him on fhore.—A few hours after, they were all good friends again; and’thecanoes were returned to the firft perfon who came for them.
It was not till the evening of this day that any one enquired after Tupia, and thenbut tvro or three. As foon as they learned the caufe of his death, they were quitefatisfied; indeed it did not appear to them that it would have caufed a moment’suneafinefs in the breafl of any one, had his death been occafioned by any other meansthan by ficknefs.
Nothing worthy of note happened on the 20th, till the dufk of the evening, whenone of the natives made off with a mufquet belonging to the guard on fhore. CaptainCoo'k was prefent when this happened, and fent fome of his people after him, whichwould have been to little purpofe, had not fome of the natives, of their own accord,purfued the thief. They knocked him down, took from him the mufquet, and broughtit back. Fear, on this occafion, certainly operated more with them than principle.-They, however, deferve to be applauded for this act of juftice; for if they had notgiven their immediate aftiftance, it would hardly have been in his power to haverecovered the mufquet by any gentle means whatever; and by making ufe of any other,he was fure to lofe more than ten times its value.
In the evening Captain Cook was informed that Waheatoua was come into theNeighbourhood, and wanted to fee him. In confequence of this information, he deter-mined to wait one day longer in order to have an interview with this Prince. Accord-ln gly, early the next morning, he fet out in company with Captain Furneaux, Mr.Bor/ter, and feveral of the natives. They found him feated on a itool, with a circle ofPeople round him; he knew Captain Cook at firft fight, he and the Prince havingfeen each other feveral times in 1769. At that time he was but a boy, and went bythe name of Tearee ; but upon the death of his father, Waheatoua, he took upon himthat name.
After the firft falutation was over, having feated the captain on the fame ftool withhimfelf, and the other gentlemen on the ground by them, he began to enquire afterfeveral by name who were with him on his former voyage. He next enquired how*°ng they would ftay; and w'hen he told him no longer than next day, he feemed forry,2fked the captain to ftay fome months, and at lafl came down to five days; promifing,ltl that time, he fhould have hogs in plenty. But as he had been here already a week,
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