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aiTured that there was a free or fafe pafTage for fuch large 177T- 



fhips as ours; though the natives failed through the in- < r~-~J 



tervals in their canoes. For this fubilantial reafon, when 

 we weighed anchor from Annamooka, I thought it ne- 

 celTary to go to the Weftward of the above iflands, and wednef. i4»- 

 fleered North North Weft, toward Kao * and Toofoa, the 

 two moft Weftcrly iflands in fight, and remarkable for 

 their great height. Feenou, and his attendants, remained 

 on board the Refolution till near noon, when he went into 

 the large failing canoe, which had brought him from Ton^ 

 gataboo, and ftood in amongft the clufter of iflands above- 

 mentioned, of which we were now almoft abreaft ; and a 

 tide or current from the Weftward had fet us, fmce our fail^ 

 ing in the morning, much over toward them. 



They lie fcattered, at unequal diftances, and are, in ge- 

 neral, nearly as high as Annamooka ; but only from two or 

 three miles, to half a mile in length, and fome of them 

 fcarcely fo much. They have either ftecp rocky fliores like 

 Annamooka, cr reddiOi cliffs ; but fome have fandy beaches 

 extending almoft their whole leagch. Moft of them are en- 

 tirely clothed with trees, amongft which are many cocoa- 

 palms, and each forms a piofpedt like a beautiful garden 

 placed in the fea. To heighten this, the ferene weather we 

 now had, contributed very much; and the whole might 

 fupply the imagination with an idea of fome fairy land 



* As a proof of the great difficulty of knowing accurately the. exadl names of 

 the South Sea Iflands, as procured from the natives, I obfe'rve that what Captain 

 Cook calls Aghao, Mr. Anderfon calls Kao; and Tafman's drawing, as I. find it iri' 

 Mr. Dalrymple's Collection of Voyages, gives the name of Knyhay to the fame ifland. • 

 T'afnaan's and Captain Cook's Jmattafoa^ is, with Mr. Anderfon, Tofoa.- Captain ■ 

 Cook's Komango, is Tafman's Amango. There is fcarcely an inftance, in which fuclt. 

 variations are not obfervable. Mr. Anderfon's great attention to matters of this fort 

 being, as we learn from Captain King, well knov/n to every body on board, and adi 

 mitted always by Captain Cook himlelf, his mode of fpelling has been adopted on the 

 engraved chart of the Friendly Iflands ; which has made it neceffary to adopt it alfo, ., 

 in printing the journal., 



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