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possessed with the spirit of the Eatooa. Omai seemed 

 to be very well instructed about them. He said, that, 

 during thefits that came upon them, they knew nobody, 

 not even their most intimate acquaintances ; and that, 

 if any one of them happens to be a man of property, 

 he will very often give away every moveable he is 

 possessed of, if his friends do not put them out of his 

 reach ; and, when he recovers, will inquire what had 

 become of those very things, which he had, but just 

 before, distributed ; not seeming to have the least re- 

 membrance of what he had done while the fit vva-s 

 upon him. 



As soon as I got on board, a light breeze springing 

 up at east, we got under sail, and steered for Matavai 

 Bay*; where the Resolution anchored the same 

 evening. But the Discovery did not get in till the 

 next morning ; so that half of the man's prophecy 

 was fulfilled. 



* See a plan of this bay, in Hawkesworth's Collection, vol. ii. 

 p. 248. 



