VZ cook's VOYAGE TO AUG. 



our former voyages bad so great a run at this island, 

 were now so much despised, that few would deign so 

 much as to look at them. 



There being but little wind all the morning, it 

 was nine o'clock before we could get to an anchor in 

 the bay ; where we moored with two bowers. Soon 

 after we had anchored, Omai's sister came on board 

 to see him. I was happy to observe, that, much to 

 the honour of them both, their meeting was marked 

 with expressions of the tenderest affection, easier to 

 be conceived than to be described. 



This moving scene having closed, and the ship 

 being properly moored, Omai and I went ashore. 

 My first object was to pay a visit to a man whom my 

 friend represented as a very extraordinary personage 

 indeed, for he said that he was the god of Bolabola. 

 We found him seated under one of those small awn- 

 ings which they usually carry in their larger canoes. 

 He was an elderly man, and lost the use of his limbs, 

 so that he was carried from place to place upon a hand- 

 barrow. Some called him Olla or Orra, which is the 

 name of the god of Bolabola ; but his own proper 

 name was Etary. From Omai's account of this per- 

 son, I expected to have seen some religious ador- 

 ation paid to him. But, excepting some plantain 

 trees that lay before him, and upon the awning 

 under which he sat, I could observe nothing by which 

 he might be distinguished from their other chiefs. 

 Omai presented to him a tuft of red feathers, tied to 

 the end of a small stick ; but, after a little convers- 

 ation on indifferent matters with this Bolabola man, 

 his attention was drawn to an old woman, the sister 

 of his mother. She was already at his feet, and had 

 bedewed them plentifully with tears of joy. 



I left him with the old lady in the midst of a num- 

 ber of people who had gathered round him, and 

 went to take a view of the house said to be built by 

 the strangers who had lately been here. I found it 

 standing at a small distance from the beach. The- 



