SO(i cook's voyage to may, 



included by the natives under the general name 

 Hapaee. 



The wind scanting upon us, we could not fetch 

 the land, so that we were forced to ply to windward. 

 In doing this we once passed over some coral rocks, 

 on which we had only six fathoms water ; but the 

 moment we were over them, found no ground 

 with eighty fathoms of line. At this time, the 

 isles of Hapaee bore from north, 50 E., to south, 

 9 W. We got up with the northernmost of these 

 isles by sunset, and there found ourselves in the 

 very same distress for want of anchorage, that we 

 had experienced the two preceding evenings ; so 

 that we had another night to spend under sail, with 

 land and breakers in every direction. Toward the 

 evening Feenou, who had been on board all day, 

 went forward to Hapaee, and took Omai in the 

 canoe with him. He did not forget our disagreeable 

 situation, and kept up a good fire all night, by way 

 of a land-mark. 



As soon as the day-light returned, being then 

 close in with Foa, we saw it was joined to Haanno, 

 by a reef running even with the surface of the sea, 

 from the one island to the other. I now dispatched 

 a boat to look for anchorage. A proper place was 

 soon found, and we came-to abreast of a reef, being 

 that which joins Lefooga to Foa, (in the same man- 

 ner that Foa is joined to Haanno), having twenty- 

 four fathoms' depth of water ; the bottom coral sand. 

 In this station, the northern point of Hapaee, or the 

 north-end of Haanno, bore north, 16 E. The 

 southern point of Hapaee, or the south end of 

 Hoolaiva, south, 29 W. ; and the north end of 

 Lefooga, south, 65 E. Two ledges of rocks lay 

 without us ; the one bearing south, 50 W. ; and the 

 other west by north one half north, distant two or 

 three miles. We lay before a creek in the reef, which 

 made it convenient landing at all times, and we were 

 not above three quarters of a mile from the shore. 



