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During the night we had some showers of rain ; 

 but toward the morning, the wind shifted to the 

 south, and south-east, and brought on fair weather. 

 At day-break we weighed, and working in to the 

 shore, met with no obstructions, but such as were 

 visible, and easily avoided. 



While we were plying up to the harbour, to which 

 the natives directed us, the king kept sailing round 

 us in his canoe. There were at the same time, a 

 great many small canoes about the ships. Two of 

 these, which could not get out of the way of his 

 royal vessel, he run quite over, with as little concern, 

 as if they had been bits of wood. Amongst many 

 others who came on board the Resolution, was 

 Otago, who had been so useful to me when I visited 

 Tongataboo during my last voyage ; and one Too- 

 bou, who, at that time, had attached himself to 

 Captain Furneaux. Each of them brought a hog 

 and some yams, as a testimony of his friendship ; 

 and I was not wanting, on my part, in making a 

 suitable return. 



At length, about two in the afternoon, we arrived 

 at our intended station. It was a very snug place, 

 formed by the shore of Tongataboo on the south-east, 

 and two small islands on the east and north-east. 

 Here we anchored in ten fathoms' water, over a bot- 

 tom of oozy sand \ distant from the shore one-third 

 of a mile. 



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