368 cook's voyage to june, 



CHAP. VIII. 



SOME OF THE OFFICERS PLUNDERED BY THE NATIVES. A 



FISHING PARTY. A VISIT TO POULAHO. A FIATOOKA 



DESCRIBED. OBSERVATIONS ON THE COUNTRY ENTER- 

 TAINMENT AT POULAHO'S HOUSE. HIS MOURNING CERE- 

 MONY. OF THE KAVA PLANT, AND THE MANNER OF 



PREPARING THE LIQUOR. ACCOUNT OF ONEVY, A LITTLE 



ISLAND. ONE OF THE NATIVES WOUNDED BY A SENTINEL. 



MESSRS. KING AND ANDERSON VISIT THE KING'S BROTHER. 



THEIR ENTERTAINMENT. ANOTHER MOURNING CERE- 

 MONY. MANNER OF PASSING THE NIGHT. REMARKS ON 



THE COUNTRY THEY PASSED THROUGH. PREPARATIONS 



MADE FOR SAILING. AN ECLIPSE OF THE SUN, IMPER- 

 FECTLY OBSERVED. MR. ANDERSON^ ACCOUNT OF THE 



ISLAND, AND ITS PRODUCTIONS. 



As no more entertainments were to be expected, 

 on either side, and the curiosity of the populace was 

 by this time pretty well satisfied ; on the day after 

 Poulaho's haiva, most of them left us. We still, 

 however, had thieves about us ; and, encouraged by 

 the negligence of our own people, we had continual 

 instances of their depredations. 



Some of the officers, belonging to both ships, who 

 had made an excursion into the interior parts of the 

 island, without my leave, and, indeed, without my 

 knowledge, returned this evening, after an absence 

 of two days. They had taken with them their mus- 

 kets, with the necessary ammunition, and several 

 small articles of the favourite commodities ; all which 

 the natives had the dexterity to steal from them, in 

 the course of their expedition. This affair was likely 

 to be attended with inconvenient consequences. 



