104 cook's VOYAGE TO NOV. 



CHAP. VII. 



ARRIVAL AT ULIETEA. ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS. A 



MARINE DESERTS, AND IS DELIVERED UP. INTELLIGENCE 



FROM OMAI. INSTRUCTIONS TO CAPTAIN CLERKE. 



ANOTHER DESERTION OF A MIDSHIPMAN AND A SEAMAN. 

 THREE OF THE CHIEF PERSONS OF THE ISLAND CON- 

 FINED ON THAT ACCOUNT. A DESIGN TO SEIZE CAP- 

 TAINS COOK AND CLERKE DISCOVERED. THE TWO DE- 

 SERTERS BROUGHT BACK, AND THE PRISONERS RELEASED. 



THE SHIPS SAIL. REFRESHMENTS RECEIVED AT ULIETEA. 



PRESENT AND FORMER STATE OF THAT ISLAND. - 



ACCOUNT OF ITS DETHRONED KING, AND OF THE LATE 

 REGENT OF HUAHEINE. 



1 he boat which carried Omai ashore never to join 

 us again, having returned to the ship with the re- 

 mainder of the hawser, we hoisted her in, and imme- 

 diately stood over for Ulietea, where I intended to 

 touch next. At ten o'clock at night, we brought to 

 till four the next morning, when we made sail round 

 the south end of the island for the harbour of Ohama- 

 neno.* We met with calms and light airs of wind 

 from different directions, by turns, so that at noon we 

 were still a league from the entrance of the harbour. 

 While we were thus detained, my old friend Oreo, 

 chief of the island, with his son, and Pootoe, his son- 

 in-law, came off to visit us. 



Being resolved to push for the harbour, I ordered 

 all the boats to be hoisted out, and sent them a-head 

 to tow, being assisted by a slight breeze from the 

 southward. This breeze failed too soon, and being 

 succeeded by one from the east, which blew right 

 out of the harbour, we were obliged to come to an 



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

 p. 248. 



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