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CHAP. XIII. 



ARRIVAL AT, AND DEPARTURE OF THE SHIPS FROM, ULIETEA ; 

 WITH AN ACCOUNT OF WHAT HAPPENED THERE, AND OF 

 OEDIDEE, ONE OF THE NATIVES, COMING AWAY IN THE 

 RESOLUTION. 



1 he chief was no sooner gone, than we made sail 

 for Ulietea (where I intended to stop a few days). 

 Arriving off the harbour of Ohamaneno at the close 

 of the day, we spent the night making short boards. 

 It was dark, but we were sufficiently guided by the 

 fishers' lights on the reefs and shores of the isles. The 

 next morning, after making a few trips, we gained 

 the entrance of the harbour ; and, as the wind, blew 

 directly out, I sent a boat to lie in soundings, that we 

 might know when to anchor. As soon as the signal 

 was made by her, we borrowed close to the south point 

 of the channel ; and, with our sails set, shooting within 

 the boat, we anchored in seventeen fathoms water. 

 We then carried out anchors and hawsers to warp 

 in by ; and, as soon as the Resolution was out of the 

 way, the Adventure came up in like manner, and 

 warped in by the Resolution. The warping in, and 

 mooring the ships, took up the whole day. 



We were no sooner at anchor at the entrance of 

 the harbour, than the natives crowded round us in 

 their canoes with hogs and fruit. The latter they 

 exchanged for nails and beads ; the former we re- 

 fused as yet, having already as many on board as we 

 could manage. Several we were, however, obliged 

 to take, as many of the principal people brought off 

 little pigs, pepper, or eavoa-root, and young plantain 

 trees, and handed them into the ship, or put them into 

 the boats along-side, whether we would or no ; for if 

 we refused to take them on board, they would throw 



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