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'777- mefs, which had been drefled for him on fliore. It confifted 



May. 



^c— ^, — J of fifli, foup, and yams. Inftead of common water to make 

 the foup, cocoa-nut liquor had been made ufe of, in which 

 the fifii had been boiled or ftewed ; probably in a wooden 

 veflel, with hot ftones ; but it was carried on board in a 

 plantain leaf. I tafted of the mefs, and found it fo good, 

 that I, afterward, had fome fiili drefTed in the fame way. 

 Though my cook fuccecded tolerably well, he could pro- 

 duce nothing equal to the diili he imitated. 



Finding that we had quite exhaufted the ifland, of alraofl 

 Sunday II. cvcry article of food that it afforded, I employed the nth 

 in moving off, from the fhore, the horfes, obfervatories, and 

 other things that we had landed, as alfo the party of ma- 

 rines who had mounted guard at our ftation, intending to 

 fail, as foon as the Difcovery fliould have recovered her beft 

 bower anchor. Feenou, underftanding that I meant to pro- 

 ceed direflly to Tongataboo, importuned me ftrongly to 

 alter this plan, to which he expreffed as much averfion, as 

 if he had fome particular intereft to promote by diverting 

 me from it. In preference to it, he warmly recommended 

 an ifland, or rather a group of iflands, called Hapaee, lying 

 to the North Eaft. There, he affured us, we could be fup- 

 plied pleniifuUy with every refrefliment, in the eafieft man- 

 ner; and, to add weight to his advice, he engaged to attend 

 us thither in perfon. He carried his point with me ; and 

 Hapaee was made choice of for our next ftation. As it had 

 never been vifited by any European fliips, the examination 

 of it became an object with me. 



Mondays. The i2th, and the 13th, were fpent in attempting the re- 

 ay 13. j,Qygj,y. q£ Captain Gierke's anchor, which, after much 

 Wednef. 14. trouble, was happily accomplifhed ; and on the 14th, in the 

 morning, we got under fail, and left Annamooka. 



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