3J2 cook's second voyage, &c. 





 and we are told, is, after Opoony's death, to marry 

 his daughter, by which marriage he will be vested 

 with the same regal authority as Opoony has now ; so 

 that, it should seem, though a woman may be vested 

 with regal dignity, she cannot have regal power. I 

 cannot find that Opoony has got any thing to himself 

 by the conquest of these isles, any farther than pro- 

 viding for his nobles, who have seized on best part of 

 the lands. He seems to have no demand on them for 

 any of the many articles they have had from us. 

 Oedidee has several times enumerated to me all the 

 axes, nails, &c. which Opoony is possessed of, which 

 hardly amount to as many as he had from me when I 

 5 aw him in 1769. Old as this famous man is, he seems 

 not to spend his last days in indolence. When we 

 first arrived here, he was at Maurana ; soon after, he 

 returned to Bolabola ; and we were now told, he was 

 gone to Tubi. 



I shall conclude this account of these islands, with 

 some observations on the watch which Mr. Wales hath 

 communicated to me. At our arrival in Matavai Bay 

 in Otaheite, the longitude pointed out by the watch 

 was l 2 8' 3&%" too far to the west ; that is, it had 

 gained, since our leaving Queen Charlotte's Sound, of 

 its then rate of going, 8' 34i // . This was in about 

 five months, or rather more, during which time it had 

 passed through the extremes of cold and heat. It 

 was judged that half this error arose after we left 

 Easter Island ; by which it appeared that it went 

 better in the cold than in the hot climates. 



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