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tached and secreted in different parts of the houses 

 nearest to Teraiobu, exclusive of unknown numbers 

 without the skirts of the town; and those that were 

 seen were dressed, many of them, in black. When 

 the guard reached Teraiobu's house, Cook ordered 

 the lieutenant of marines to go in and see if he was 

 at home, and, if he was, to bring him out. The lieu- 

 tenant went in, and found the old man sitting with 

 two or three old women of distinction ; and when 

 he gave Teraiobu to understand that Cook was 

 without and wanted to see him, he discovered the 

 greatest marks of uneasiness, but arose and accom- 

 panies the lieutenant out, holding his hand. When 

 he came before Cook he squatted down upon his 

 hams as a mark of humiliation, and Cook took him 

 by the hand from the lieutenant, and conversed 

 with him. 



"The appearance of our parade both by water 

 and on shore, though conducted with the utmost 

 silence, and with as little ostentation as possible, 

 had alarmed the towns on both sides of the bay, 

 but particularly Kiverua, where the people were in 

 complete order for an onset: otherwise it would 

 have been a master of surprise, that though Cook 

 did not see twenty men in passing through the 

 town, yet, before he had conversed ten minutes 

 with Teraiobu, he was surrounded by three or four 



