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tipon. At length, when they perceived that we were re- '777- 



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turning to the mips, they all left us, except our original 

 vifiter Mourooa. He, though not without evident figns of 

 fear, kept his place in my boat, and accompanied me on- 

 board the fliip. 



The cattle and other new objects, that prcfented them- 

 felves to him there, did not ftrike him with fo much fur- 

 prife as one might have expefted. Perhaps his mind was- 

 too much taken up about his own fafety, to allow him to 

 attend to other things. It is certain, that he feemed very 

 uneafy ; and the fhip, on our getting on board, happening 

 to be Handing off fliore, this circumftance made him the 

 more fo. I could get but little new information from him ; 

 and therefore, after he had made a fliort (lay, I ordered 

 a boat to cany him in toward the land. As foon as he got 

 ou' of the cabin, he happened to Humble over one of the 

 goats. Plis curiofiry now overcoming his fear, he flopped, 

 looked at it, and afked Omai, what bird this was ? and not 

 receiving an immediate anfwer from him, he repeated the 

 queftion to foime of the people upon deck. The boat hav- 

 ing conveyed him pretty near to the furf, he leaped into 

 the fea, and fv/am afliore. He had no fooner landed, than 

 the multitude of his countrynien gathered I'ound him, as if 

 with an eager curiofity to learn from him what he had 

 feen ; and in this (ituation they remained, when we loft 

 fight of them. As foon as the boat returned, we hoifted her 

 in, and made fail from the land to the Northward. 



Thus were we obliged to leave, unvifited, this fine iiland, 



which feemed capable of fupplying all oar wants. It lies 



in the latitude of i>i° 57' South; and in the longitude of 



201° 53' Eaft. Such parts of the coaft, as fell under our 



4t obfervation,. 



