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to our apparent injury by the loss, had so alarmed 

 the natives, that in the evening they began to leave 

 the neighbourhood of the fort vi^ith their effects : 

 that a double canoe having been seen to put off from 

 the bottom of the bay by Mr. Gore, the second lieu- 

 tenant, who was left in command on board the ship, 

 and who had received orders not to suffer any canoe 

 to go out, he sent the boatswain with a boat after 

 her to bring her back : that as soon as the boat 

 came up, the Indians being alarmed, leaped into the 

 sea ; and that Tootahah, being unfortunately one of 

 the number, the boatswain took him up, and brought 

 him to the ship, suffering the rest of the people to 

 swim on shore : that Mr. Gore, not sufficiently 

 attending to the order that none of the people 

 should be confined, had sent him to the fort, and 

 Mr. Hicks, the first lieutenant, who commanded 

 there, receiving him in charge from Mr. Gore, did 

 not think himself at liberty to dismiss him. 



The notion that we intended to put him to death 

 had possessed him so strongly, that he could not be 

 persuaded to the contrary till by my orders he was 

 led out of the fort. The people received him as they 

 would have done a father in the same circumstances, 

 and everyone pressed forward to embrace him. Sudden 

 joy is commonly liberal, without a scrupulous regard 

 to merit : and Tootahah, in the first expansion of 

 his heart, upon being unexpectedly restored to liberty 

 and life, insisted upon our receiving a present of two 

 hogs ; though, being conscious that upon this occa- 

 sion we had no claim to favours, we refused them 

 many times. 



Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander attended the next 

 morning in their usual capacity of marketmen, but very 

 few Indians appeared, and those who came brought 

 no provisions. Tootahah, however, sent some of his 

 people for the canoe that had been detained, which 

 they took away. A canoe having also been detained 

 that belonged to Oberea, Tupia, the person who 



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