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alfo introduced to them, to whom they made prefents. 'In return he gave them a hogand a quantity of cloth, promifing that all their wants Ihould be fupplied ; and it willfoon appear how well he kept his word. At length they took leave, and returnedon board ; and fome time after Mr. Pickerfgill returned alfo with fourteen ho?s.Many more were got by exchanges on fliore and alongfide the flips, befides fowlsand fruits in abundance.

This good old chief paid them a vifit early in the morning on the 5th, togetherwith fome of his friends, bringing a hog and fome fruit. He carried his kindnefs fofar as not to fail to fend every, day, for Captain Cook ’s table, the very bell of readydrelfed fruit and roots, and in great plenty. Lieutenant Pickerfgill being again fent■with the two boats in fearch of hogs, returned in the evening with twenty-eight; andabout four times that number were purchafed on Ihore and alongfide the Ihips.

Next day the people crowded in from every part with hogs, fowls, and fruit, fo thatthey prefently filled two boats. Oree himfelf prefented a large hog and a quantity offruit. Oree and Captain Cook were profelfed friends in all the forms cuftomaryamong them; and he feemed to thinls. that this could not be broken by the act of anyother perfons.

On the 7th, early in the morning, while the fhips were unmooring, Captain Cook went to pay his farewell vifit to Oree, accompanied by Captain Furneaux andMr. Forfter. They took with them, for a prefent, fuch things as were not onlyvaluable, but ufeful. He alfo left with him the infcription plate he had before in.keeping, and another fmall copper-plate, on which were engraved thefe words:“ Anchored here, His Britannic Majefty’s Ihips Refolution and Adventure, September1773 »” together with fome medals, all put up in a bag; of which the chief promifedto take care, and to produce to the firft Ihip or fhips that fhould arrive at the illand.He then gave a hog ; and after trading for fix or eight more, and loading the boatwith fruit, they took leave, when the good old chief embraced the Captain with tearsin his eyes. When they returned to the fhips, they found them crowded round withcanoes full of hogs, fowls, and fruit, as at their firft arrival. Oree came on board andftaid till they were a full half league out at fea; then took a moft affectionate leave,and went away in a canoe, conducted by one man and himfelf, all the others havinggone long before.

During their fhort ftay at the fmall but fertile ifle of Huaheine, they procured toboth fhips not lefs than three hundred hogs, befides fowls and fruits; and had theyftaid longer, might have got many more; for none of thefe articles of refrefhmentwere feemingly diminifhed, but appeared every where in as great abundance asever.

Before they quitted this ifland, Captain Furneaux agreed to receive on board hisftnp a young man named Omai , a native of Ulietea, where he had had fome property,°f which he had been difpoffeffed by the people of Bolabola. Captain Cook won-dered that Captain Furneaux would encumber himfelf with this man, who in his°pinion was not a proper fample of the inhabitants of thefe happy iflands, not havingany advantage of birth or acquired rank, nor being eminent in fhape, figure, or com-plexion ; for their people of the firft rank are much fairer, and ufually better behaved,a nd more intelligent, than the middling clafs of people, among whom Omai is to beranked. The Captain, however, fince his arrival in England, has been convinced ofhis error ; for excepting his complexion, (which is undoubtedly of a deeper hue thanthat of the earees, or gentry, who, as in other countries, live a more luxurious life,an d are lefs expofed to the heat of the fun,) he doubts whether any other of the

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