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A VOYAGE TO 



'777- encd to kill her, as foon as we fliould leave the ifland, for 



November. . r • 



' ' difappointing them. Being aware of this, we contrived that 



her friends fhould come, fome days after, and take her out 

 of the Ihip, to convey her to a place of fafety, where fhe 

 might lie concealed, till they fhould have an opportunity 

 of fending her back to Huaheine. 



f/hurfdayz;. On tlic 27th, our obfcrvatories were taken down, and 

 every thing we had afhorc carried on board ; the moorings 

 of the fliips were caft off; and we tranfported them a little 

 way down the harbour, where they came to an anchor 

 again. Toward the afcernoon, the natives began to fhake 

 off their fears, gathering round, and on board, the fhips, as 

 iifual ; and the awkward tranfa6lion of the day before 

 feemcd to be forgotten on both fides. 



Friday 28. The foUowing night, the wind blew in hard fqualls 



from South to Eaft, attended with heavy fhowers of rain. 

 In one of the fqualls, the cable, by which the Refolution 

 was riding, parted, juft without the hawfe. We had an- 

 other anchor ready to let go ; fo that the fhip was, prefent- 

 ly, brought up again. In the afternoon, the wind became 

 moderate ; and we hooked the end of the beft fmall bower 

 cable, and got it again into the hawfe. 



Oreo, the Chief, being uneafy, as well as myfelf, that 

 no account had been received from Bolabola, fet out, this 

 evening, for that ifland, and dcfired me to follow down, 

 the next day, with the Ihips. This was my intention ; but 

 ihc wind would not admit of our getting to fea. But 

 the lame wind which kept us in the harbour, brouglu 

 Oreo back from Bclabola, with the two defcrters. They 

 had reached Otaha, tlie fame night they dcfertcd ; bur, 

 finding it impoilible to get to any of the illands to the Fail- 

 I wartl 



