0^6 cook's first voyage JULY. 



duce was of the same kind. The people also exactlj' 

 resembled those that we had seen at the other islands; 

 they were not numerous, but they flocked about the 

 boat wherever she went from all quarters, bringing 

 with them whatever they had to sell. They paid the 

 strangers, of whom they had received an account 

 from Tupia, the same compliment which they used 

 towards their own kings, uncovering their shoulders, 

 and wTapping their garments round their breasts ; and 

 were so solicitous to prevent its being neglected by 

 any of their people, that a man was sent with them, 

 who called out to every one they met, telling him 

 what they were, and what he was to do. 



In the mean time, I kept plying off and on, wait- 

 ing for the boat's return ; at half an hour after ^ve, 

 not seeing any thing of her, I fired a gun, and after 

 it was dark hoisted a light ; at half an hour after 

 eight, we heard the report of a musquet, which we 

 answered with a gun, and soon after the boat came 

 on board. The master reported, that the harbour 

 was safe and commodious, with good anchorage 

 from twenty-five to sixteen fathom water, clear 

 ground. 



As soon as the boat was hoisted in, I made sail to 

 the northward, and at eight o'clock in the morning 

 of the 29th, we were close under the Peak of Bola- 

 bola, which was high, rude, and craggy. As the is- 

 land was altogether inaccessible in this part, and we 

 found it impossible to weather it, we tacked and stood 

 off, then tacked again, and after many trips did not 

 weather the south end of it till twelve o'clock at 

 night. At eight o'clock the next morning, we dis- 

 covered an island, which bore from us N. 63° W. dis- 

 tant about eight leagues ; at the same time the Peak 

 of Bolabola bore N. J E. distant three or four leagues. 

 This island Tupia called Maurua, and said that it 

 was small, wholly surrounded by a reef, and without 

 any harbour for shipping ; but inhabited, and bearing 

 the same produce as the neighbouring islands : the 



