T H E P A C I F I C O C E A N\ 221 



C H A P. XI. 



'The Situation of the Ijlands now difcovered. — Their Names ^ 

 — Called the Sandwich Ijlands. — Atooi defer ihed, — The 

 Soil. — Climate. — Vegetable ProduElions. — Birds. — Fijlj, 

 — Dome/lie y^?ti7nals. — Pcrfojts of the hihabitants. — 'Their 

 "Diffofition. — Drefs. — Ornaments. — Habitations. — Food- 

 — Cookery. — Amtifcments. — ManufaEiures. — Working- 

 tools . — Knowledge of Iro?t accounted for. — Canoes. — 

 Agriculture. — Account of one of their Chiefs. — PVea- 

 po?ts. — Cufloms agreeing with thofe of Tongataboo and 

 Otaheite. — Their Language the fame. — Extent of this 

 Nation throughout the Pacifc Ocean. — RefleSlions on the 

 ufeful Situation of the Sandwich Ijlands. 



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T is worthy of obfervation, that the iflands in the Pa- i-?*- 

 cific Ocean, which our late voyages have added to the ■ ^ \" '-> 



geography of the globe, have been generally found lying in 

 groups or cluflers ; the fingle intermediate iflands, as yet 

 difcovered, being few in proportion to the others ; though, 

 probably, there are many more of them Hill unknown, which 

 ferve as fteps between the feveral clufters. Of what number 

 this newly-difcovered Archipelago confifts, mull be left for 

 future inveftigation. We faw five of them, whofe names, as 

 given to us by the natives, are Woahoo, Atooi, Oneeheow, 

 Oreehoua, and Tahoora. The laft is a fmall elevated ifland, 

 lying four or five leagues from the South Eaft point of Onee- 



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