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Ma^' -Southward of thefe, as large as the others. Each feemed to 



s— >, > ,be about fix or feven miles long, and of a fimilar height and 



appearance. The Northernmoft of them is called Haanno, 

 the next Foa, the third Lcfooga, and the Southernmoft Hoo- 

 iaiva ; but all four are included, by the natives, under the 

 general name Hapaee. 



The wind fcanting upon us, we could not fetch the land ; 

 fo that we were forced to ply to windward. In doing this, 

 we once palTed over fome coral rocks, on which we had 

 only fix fathoms water ; but the moment we were over 

 them, found no ground with eighty fathoms of line. At this 

 time, the ifles of Hapaee__bore, from North, 50° Eaft, to South, 

 9° Weft. We got up with the Northernmoft of thefe ifles by 

 funfet } and there found ourfelves in the very fame diftrefs, 

 for want of anchorage, that we had experienced the two pre- 

 ceding evenings ; fo that we had another night to fpend 

 under fail, with land and breakers in every dire6lion. To- 

 ward the evening, Feenou, who had been on board all day, 

 went forward to Hapaee, and took Omai in the canoe with 

 him. He did not forget our difagreeable lituation ; and 

 kept up a good fire, all night, by way of a land- mark. 



Saturday 17. As foou as the day-light returned, being then clofe in 

 with Foa, we faw it was joined to Haanno, by a reef 

 running even with the furface of the fea, from the one 

 ifland to the other. I now difpatched a boat to look for an- 

 chorage. A proper place was foon found ; and we came to, 

 abreaft of a reef, being that which joins Lcfooga to Foa (in 

 the fame manner that Foa is joined to Haanno), having 

 twenty-four fathoms depth of water ; the bottom coral fand. 

 In this ftation, the northern point of Hapaee, or the North 

 end of Haanno, bore North, 16° Eaft. The Southern point 



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