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count of its signification or use. We had commenced 

 a kind of trade with the natives, but it went on 

 slowly ; for when any thing was offered, not one of 

 them would take it upon his own judgment, but col- 

 lected the opinions of twenty or thirty people, which 

 could not be done without great loss of time. We 

 got, however, eleven pigs, and determined to try for 

 more the next day. 



The next day, therefore, we brought out some 

 hatchets, for which we hoped we should have had no 

 occasion, upon an island which no European had 

 ever visited before. These procured us three very 

 large hogs ; and as we proposed to sail in the after- 

 noon. King Oree and several others came on board 

 to take their leave. To the king I gave a small 

 plate of pewter, on which was stamped this inscrip- 

 tion, ** His Britannic-Majesty's ship. Endeavour, 

 Lieutenant Cook, Commander, l6th July, 1769, Hua- 

 heine.'' I gave him also some medals or counters, 

 resembling the coin of England, struck in the year 

 1761, with some other presents ; and he promised 

 that with none of these, particularly the plate, he 

 would ever part. I thought it as lasting a testimony 

 of our having first discovered this island, as any we 

 could leave behind ; and having dismissed our visi- 

 tors well satisfied, and in great good-humour, we set 

 sail, about half an hour after tv/o in the afternoon. 



The island of Huaheine, or Huahene, is situated 

 in the latitude of 16° 43' S. and longitude 152° 52' 

 W. from Greenwich : it is distant from Otaheite about 

 thirty-one leagues, in the direction of N. 58 W. and 

 is about seven leagues in compass. Its surface is 

 hilly and uneven, and it has a safe and commodious 

 harbour. The harbour, which is called by the na- 

 tives OwALLE, or OwHARRE, lics ou the west side, 

 under the northernmost high land, and within the 

 north end of the reef, which lies along that side of 

 the island ; there are two inlets or openings, by which 

 it may be entered, through the reef, about a mile 



