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«777- I had feen at Tongataboo, during my laft voyage ; and who 



May. 



u— V — -} was then fuppofcd by us to be the King of that ifland. He 

 fat in the canoe, with all that gravity, by which, as I have 

 mentioned in my Journal*, he was fo remarkably diflin- 

 guiilied at that time ; nor could I, by any intreaties, prevail 

 upon him now to come into the fhip. Many of the iflanders 

 were prefent; and they all called him Areekee, which fignifies 

 King. I had never heard any one of them give this title to 

 Feenou, however extenfive his authority over them, both 

 here, and at Annamooka, had appeared to be; which had, 

 all along, inclined m>e to fufpe(5l, that he was not the King; 

 though his friend Taipa had taken pains to make me be- 

 lieve he was. Latooliboula remained under the ftern till 

 the evening, when he retired in his canoe to one of the 

 illands. Feenou was on board my fhip at the fame time 5 

 but neither of thefe great men took the lead notice of the 

 other. 



Thurfday22. Nothing material happened the next day, except that fome. 

 of the natives ilole a tarpaulin, and other things, from ofT 

 the deck. They were foon mifTed, and the thieves purfued ; 



* See Captain Cook' s Voyage, Vol. i. p. 2o5, 207. The name of this extraordinary 

 perfonage is there faid to be Kohagee-Uo Faliangou ; which cannot, by the mofl fkil- 

 ful etymologift-, be tortured into the leaft mod diflant refemblance of Latooi'ibouLT. It: 

 is remarkable, that Captain Cook fliould not take any notice of his having called the 

 fame perfon by two names fo very difFerent. Perhaps we may account for this by 

 fuppofing one to be the name of the perfon, and the other the defcription of his title 

 or rank. This fuppofition feems well founded, when we confider, that Latoo, in the 

 language of thefe people, is fometimes ufcd to fignify a Great Chief; and Dr. Fofter, 

 in his Ohfervatiom, p. 378, 379. and elfewhere, fpeaks of the fovereign of Tonga- 

 taboo, under the title of their Laioo. This very perfon is called, by Dr. Foiler, 

 p. 370. Latco-Nipoo-rco -y which furniflies a very flriking. inftance of the variations 

 of our people in writing down the fame word as pronounced hy the natives-. Hov/- 

 ever, we can eafily trace the affinity between Nupooroo and Liboula, as the changes of 

 ths confonants are fuch as are perpetually made, upon hearing a word pronounced, to 

 wliich our ears have not been accuftonied. Air. Anderfoii here agrees with Captain 

 Cuok in writing Latooliboula. 



but 



