T H E P A C I r I C O C E A N» 79- 



September. 



C H A P. V. 



Arrival at R'rmeo. — Tii)0 Harbours there., a7jd an Accou7it 

 of them. — Vifit froin Maheine, Chief of the Iflaiid.—^- 

 His P erf on. defer i bed. — A Goat fokn^ and fent back 

 irith the Thief — Another Goat ftolen and fecreted—- 

 Meafures tahe7% on the Occafon. — Expedition crofs the 

 Ifar.d. — Houfes and Cafioes burnt. — The Goat deli- 

 vered upy and Peace rcfored^ — Sonie Account of the 

 Ifland, &'c. 



/V S I ciid not give up my dcfign of toudiing at Eimeo, ^^^I'JJ^^ 

 ^ X at day-break, in the morning of the 30th, after leav- 

 ing Otahcitc, 1 flood for the North end of the ifland ; the 

 harbour, which I wifhcd to examine, being at that part of 

 it. Omai, in his canoe, having arrived there long before 

 113, had taken Tome neccflary meafures to fliew us the place. 

 However, we were not without pilots, having fevcral men 

 of Otaheite on board, and not a few women. Not caring to 

 truft entirely to thcfc guides, I fent two boats to examine 

 tlie harbour ; and on their making the fignal for fa fe an- 

 chorage, we Hood ia with the fliips, and anchored clofe up- 

 t-o the head of the inlet, in ten fathoms water, over a bot- 

 tom of fofc mud, and moored with a hawfer fafl to the 

 fliore. 



This harbour, which is called Taloo, is fituated upon the- 

 North fide of the ifland, in the diflri'il of Oboonohoo, or 



Poonohoo. 



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Tuefday 30,. 



