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CHAP. XV. 



AN ACCOUNT OF THE CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE ISLAND, AND 

 VARIOUS INCIDENTS THAT HAPPENED DURING THE EXPEDI- 

 TION ; WITH A DESCRIPTION OF A BURYING-PLACE AND 

 PLACE OF WORSHIP, CALLED A MORAL 



On Monday, the 26th, about three o'clock in the 

 morning, I set out in the pinnace, accompanied by 

 Mr. Banks, to make the circuit of the island, with a 

 view to sketch out the coast and harbours. We took 

 our route to the eastward, and about eight in the 

 forenoon we went on shore, in a district called Oa- 

 HOUNUE, which is governed by Ahio, ,a young chief^ 

 whom we had often seen at the tents, and who fa- 

 voured us with his company to breakfast. Here also 

 we found two other natives of our old acquaintance, 

 TiTUBOALO and Hoona, who carried us to their 

 houses, near which we saw the body of the old woman, 

 at whose funeral rites Mr. Banks had assisted, and 

 which had been removed hither from the spot where 

 it was first deposited, this place having descended 

 from her by inheritance to Hoona, and it being ne- 

 cessary on that account that it should lie here. We 

 then proceeded on foot, the boat attending within 

 call, to the harbour in which Mr. Bougainville lay, 

 called Ohidea, where the natives showed us the 

 ground upon which his people pitched their tent, and 

 the brook at which they watered, though no trace of 

 them remained, except the holes where the poles of 

 the tent had been fixed, and a small piece of pot- 

 sheard, which Mr. Banks found in looking narrowly 

 about the spot. We met, however, with Orette, a 

 chief who was their principal friend, and whose 

 brother, Outorrou, went away with them. 



This harbour lies on the west side of a great bay, 



