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hundred and twenty. In the afternoon another mes- 

 senger arrived from Tootahah for the axe and shirt ; 

 as it was now become absolutely necessary to recover 

 the friendship of this man, without which it would 

 be scarcely possible to procure provisions, I sent word 

 that Mr. Banks and myself would visit him on the 

 morrow, and bring what he wanted with us. 



Early the next morning he sent again to remind 

 me of my promise, and his people seemed to wait till 

 we should set out with great impatience : I therefore 

 ordered the pinnace, in which I embarked with Mr. 

 Banks and Dr. Solander about ten o'clock : we took 

 one of Tootahah's people in the boat with us, and in 

 about an hour we arrived at his place of residence 

 which is called Eparre, and is about four miles to 

 the westward of the tents. 



We found the people waiting for us in great num- 

 bers upon the shore, so that it would have been im- 

 possible for us to have proceeded, if way had not 

 been made for us by a tall well-looking man, who had 

 something like a turban about his head, and a long 

 white stick in his hand, with which he laid about him 

 at an unmerciful rate. This man conducted us to 

 the chief, while the people shouted round us, Taio 

 Tootahah, " Tootahah is your friend." We found 

 him, like an ancient Patriarch, sitting under a tree, 

 with a number of venerable old men standing round 

 him ; he made a sign to us to sit down, and immedi- 

 ately asked for his axe : this I presented to him, with 

 an upper garment of broad cloth, made after the 

 country fashion, and trimmed with tape, to which 

 I also added a shirt: he received them with 

 great satisfaction, and immediately put on the gar- 

 ment ; but the shirt he gave to the person who had 

 cleared the way for us upon our landing, who was 

 now seated by us, and of whom he seemed desirous 

 that we should take particular notice. In a short 

 time, Oberea, and several other women whom we 

 knew, came and sat down among us : Tootahah left 



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