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While these gentlemen were on shore, several of 

 the natives went off to the ship, and trafficked, by 

 exchanging their cloth for that of Otaheite : of this 

 barter they were for some time very fond, preferring 

 the Indian cloth to that of Europe : but before night 

 it decreased in its value five hundred per cent. 

 Many of these Indians I took on board, and showed 

 them the ship and her apparatus, at which they 

 expressed equal satisfaction and astonishment. 



As I found it exceedingly difficult to get water on 

 board on account of the surf, I determined to stay 

 no longer at this place ; on the next morning, there- 

 fore, about five o'clock, I weighed anchor, and put 

 to sea. 



This bay, which is called by the natives Tegadoo, 

 lies in the latitude of 38° 10' S.; but as it has nothing 

 to recommend it, a description of it is unnecessary. 



From this bay 1 intended to stand on to the north- 

 ward, but the wind being right against me, I could 

 make no way. While I was beating about to wind- 

 ward, some of the natives came on board, and told 

 me, that in a bay which lay a little to the southward, 

 being the same that I could not fetch the day I put 

 into Tegadoo, there was excellent water, where the 

 boats might land without a surf. I thought it better, 

 therefore, to put into this bay, where I might com- 

 plete my water, and form farther connections with 

 the Indians, than to keep the sea. With this view I 

 bore up for it, and sent in two boats, manned and 

 armed, to examine the watering-place, who confirming 

 the report of the Indians at their return, I came to an 

 anchor about one o'clock, in eleven fathom water, with 

 a fine sandy bottom, the north point of the bay N.by E., 

 and the south point S. E. The watering-place, which 

 was in a small cove a little within the south point 

 of the bay, bore S. by E., distant about a mile. Many 

 canoes came immediately off' from the shore, and all 

 traded very honestly for Otaheite cloth and glass- 

 bottles, of which thev were immoderatelv fond. 



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