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feemed to imply, at leaft, that their countrymen on fiiore 

 had not made an improper ufe of the confidence put in 

 them. At length, a little before fun-fet, we had the fatisfac- 

 tion of feeing the boats put off. When they got on board, 

 I found tha,t Mr. Gore himfelf, Omai, Mr. Anderfon, and 

 Mr. Barney, were the only perfons who had landed. The 

 tranfa(5lions of the day were now fully reported to me by 

 Mr. Gore ; but Mr. Anderfon's account of them being very 

 particular, and including fome remarks on the iiland and 

 its inhabitants, I fhall give it a place here, nearly in his 

 own ViTords. 



" We rowed toward a fmall fandy beach, upon which, 

 and upon the adjacent rocks, a great number of the natives 

 had affembled ; and came to an anchor within a hundred 

 yards of the reef, which extends about as far, or a little 

 farther, from the fliore. Several of the natives fwam off, 

 bringing cocoa nuts ; and Omai, with their countrymen, 

 whom we had with us in the boats, made them fenfiblc of 

 our wifli to land. But their attention was taken up, for a 

 little time, by the dog, which had been carried from the 

 Ihip, and was juft brought on fhore, round whom they 

 flocked with great eagernefs. Soon after, two canoes came 

 off; and, to create a greater confidence in the iflanders, we 

 determined to go unarmed, and run the hazard of being 

 treated well or ill. 



Mr. Burney, the firft Lieutenant of the Difcovery, and I, 

 went in one canoe, a little time before the other ; and our con- 

 ductors, watching attentively the motions of the furf, landed 

 us fafely upon the reef. An iflander took hold of each of 

 us, obvioufly with an intention to fupport us in walking, 

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