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or old age I cannot say. On several occasions I 

 have seen the old men respected and obeyed. Our 

 friend Paowang was so ; and yet I never heard him 

 called chief, and have many reasons to believe that 

 he had not a right to any more authority than many 

 of his neighbours, and few, if any, were bound to 

 obey him, or any other person in our neighbour- 

 hood ; for if there had been such a one, we certainly 

 should, by some means, have known it. I named 

 the harbour Port Resolution, after the ship, she 

 being the first which ever entered it. It is situ- 

 ated on the north side of the most eastern point of 

 the island, and about E. N. E. from the volcano ; in 

 the latitude of 19° 32' %5"% South, and in the longi- 

 tude of 169° 44' 3.5" East. It is no more than a little 

 creek running in S. by W. -|- W. three quarters of a 

 mile, and is about half that in breadth. A shoal of sand 

 and rocks lying on the east side makes it still nar- 

 rower. The depth of water in the harbour is from 

 six to three fathoms, and the bottom is sand and mud. 

 No place can be more convenient for taking in wood 

 and water ; for both are close to the shore. The 

 water stunk a little after it had been a few days on 

 board, but it afterwards turned sweet ; and, even 

 when it was at the worst, the tin machine would, in 

 a few hours, recover a whole cask. This is an ex- 

 cellent contrivance for sweetening water at sea, and 

 is well known in the navy. 



Mr. Wales, from whom I had the latitude and 

 longitude, found the variation of the needle to be 

 7° 14' 12" East, and the dip of its south end 45° 2f . 

 He also observed the time of high water, on the full 

 and change days* to be about 5 h. 45m., and the tide to 

 rise and fall three feet. 



