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try. Accordingly, he was furnished with a proper 

 dress, and appeared at the ceremony as one of the 

 natives. It is likely, that one reason of our being 

 excluded at first, was an apprehension, that we would 

 not submit to the requisites to qualify us to assist. 



While I was attending the Natclie at Mooa, I 

 ordered the horses, bull and cow, and goats, to be 

 brought thither ; thinking that they would be safer 

 there, under the eyes of the chiefs, than at a place 

 that would be, in a manner, deserted, the moment 

 after our departure. Besides the above-mentioned 

 animals, we left, with our friends here, a young boar, 

 and three young sows, of the English breed. They 

 were exceedingly desirous of them, judging, no 

 doubt, that they would greatly improve their own 

 breed, which is rather small. Feenou also got from 

 us two rabbits, a buck and a doe ; and, before we 

 sailed, we were told, that young ones had been 

 already produced. If the cattle succeed, of which 

 I make no doubt, it will be a vast acquisition to these 

 islands ; and, as Tongataboo is a fine level country, 

 the horses cannot but be useful. 



On the 10th, at eight o'clock in the morning, we 

 weighed anchor, and with a steady gale at south east, 

 turned through the channel, between the small isles 

 called Makkahaa and Monooafai ; it being much 

 wider than the channel between the last mentioned 

 island and Pangimodoo. The flood set strong in 

 our favour, till we were the length of the channel 

 leading up to the lagoon, where the flood from the 

 eastward meets that from the west. This, together 

 with the indraught of the lagoon, and of the shoals 

 before it, causeth strong riplings and whirpools. To 

 add to these dangers, the depth of water in the chan- 

 nel exceeds the length of a cable ; so that there is 

 no anchorage, except close to the rocks, where we 

 met with forty and forty-five fathoms, over a bottom 

 of dark sand. But, then, here a ship would be ex- 

 posed to the whirlpools. This frustrated the design 



