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made the chief and his friends the neceffary prefents, they went on board with a hogand fome fruit, received from him in return $ and in the afternoon he gave themanother hog, ftill larger, without afking for the leaft acknowledgment.
After breakfaft, on the ioth, Captain Furneaux and Captain Cook paid the chief avifit; and they were entertained by him with fuch a comedy, or dramatic heava, as isgenerally adted in thefe hies. The mufic confifted of three drums; the actors werefeven men, and one woman, the chief’s daughter. The only entertaining part of thedrama, was a theft committed by a man and his accomplice, in fuch a mafterly manner,as fufficiently difplayed the genius of the people in this vice. — The theft is difcoveredbefore the thief has time to carry off his prize; then a fcuffle enfues with thofe fetto guard it, who, though four to two, are beat off the ftage, and the thief and hisaccomplice bear away their plunder in triumph. Captain Cook fays, “ I was veryattentive to the whole of this part, being in full expectation that it would have endedvery differently. For I had before been informed that Teto (that is, the thief,) was tobe adted, and had underftood that the thief was to be punilhed with death, or a goodtiparrahying (or beating), a punifoment, we are told, they inflidt on fuch as are guiltyof this crime. Be this as it may, ftrangers are certainly excluded from the protectionof this law; them they rob with impunity, on every occafion that offers.”
After dinner, on the nth, Captain Cook had a vifit from Oo-oorou, the principalchief of the ifle. Fie was introduced by Oreo, and had brought with him as a prefenta large hog, for which he had a handfome reurn. Oreo employed himfelf in buyinghogs, and he made good bargains.
On the 16th, Captain Cook was told that his Otaheitan young man, Poreo, hadtaken a refolution to leave him, and was a&ually gone ; having met with a young woman,for whom he had contradted a friendffip, he went away with her, and he faw him nomore.
Having now got on board a large fupply of refrefhments, the captain determined toput to fea the next morning, and made the fame known to the chief, who promifed tofee him again before he departed. At four o’clock they began to unmoor, and asfoon as it was light, Oreo, his fon, and fome of his friends, came on board. Many canoesalfo came off with fruit and hogs; the latter they even begged of them to take fromthem, calling out Tiyo boaatoi. — t( I am your friend, take my hog, and give me anaxe.” But the decks were already fo full of them, that they could hardly move;having on board both (hips between three and four hundred. By the increafe of theiruock, together with what they had falted and confumed, it appeared that they got atthis ifland four hundred, or upwards. Many indeed were only roafters; others againtjrighed one hundred pounds, or upwards; but the general run was from forty touxty. It is not eafy to fay how many they might have got, could they have foundf°om for all that were offered them.
The chief and his friends did not leave them till they were under fail; and beforehe went away, preffed them much to know if they would not return, and when ? -—Questions which were daily put by many of thefe iflanders. The Otaheitean youth’swaving Captain Cook proved of no confequence, as many young men of this iflandv °luntarily offered to come away with them: he thought proper to take on board one,^ho was about feventeen or eighteen years of age, named Oedidee, a native of Bola-h°la, and a near relation of the great Opoony, chief of that ifland.
Soon after their arrival at Otaheite , they were informed that a fliip, about the fize ofthe Refolution, had been in at Owhairurua harbour, near the fouth-ealt end of the ifland,^here foe remained about three weeks; and had been gone about three months. They
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