S4 cook's first voyage APRIL, 



CHAR VIII. 



THE ARRIVAL OF THE ENDEAVOUR AT OTAHEITE, CALLED BY 



CAPTAIN WALLIS KING GEORGE THE THIRD'S ISLAND. RULES 



ESTABLISHED FOR TRAFFIC WITH THE NATIVES, AND AN AC- 

 COUNT OF SEVERAL INCIDENTS WHICH HAPPENED IN A VISIT 

 TO TOOTAHAH AND TOUBOURAI TAMAIDA, TWO CHIEFS. 



About one o'clock, on Monday the 10th of April, 

 some of the people who were looking out for the 

 island to which we were bound, said they saw land 

 a-head, in that part of the horizon where it was ex- 

 pected to appear ; but it was so faint that whether 

 there was land in sight or not, remained a matter of 

 dispute till sunset. The next morning, however, at 

 six o'clock, we were convinced that those who said 

 they had discovered land were not mistaken ; it ap- 

 peared to be very high and mountainous, extending 

 from W. by S. i S. to W. by N. i N., and we knew it 

 to be the same that Captain Wallis had called King 

 George the Third's Island. We were delayed in our 

 approach to it by light airs and calms, so that in the 

 morning of the 12th we were but little nearer than 

 we had been the night before ; but about seven a 

 breeze sprung up, and before eleven several canoes 

 were seen making towards the ship : there were but 

 few of them, however, that would come near ; and 

 the people in those that did could not be persuaded 

 to come on board. In every canoe there were young 

 plantains, and branches of a tree which the Indians 

 call E'Midho : these, as we afterwards learnt, were 

 brought as tokens of peace and amity ; and the people 

 in one of the canoes handed them up the ship's side, 

 making signals at the same time with great earnest- 

 ness, which we did not immediately understand ; at 

 length we guessed that they wished these symbols 

 should be placed in some conspicuous part of the 



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