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cove where we landed, and where no one would ever have 

 thought of looking for what we wanted. However, I be- 

 lieve, the water of this fpring might be good, were it pof- 

 fible to take it up, before the tide mixes with it. Finding 

 that we did not like this, our friends took us a little way 

 into the ifland ; where, in a deep chafm, we found very 

 good water ; which, at the expence of fome time and 

 trouble, might be conveyed down to the Ihore, by means of 

 fpouts or trouglis, that could be made with plantain leaves, 

 and the flera of the tree. But, rather than to undertake 

 that tedious tafk, I refolved to reft contented with the fupply 

 the fliips had got at Tongataboo. 



Before I returned on board, I fet on foot a trade for hogs 

 and yams. Of the former, we could procure but few ; bur, 

 of the latter, plenty. I put afliore, at this ifland, the rara 

 and two ewes, of the Cape of Good Hope breed of flieep ; 

 intrufting them to the care of Taoofa, who feemed proud 

 of his charge. It v^-as fortunate, perhaps, that Mareewa- 

 gee, to whom I had given them, as before-mentioned, 

 flighted the prefent. Eooa, not having, as yet, got any dogs 

 upon it, feems to be a properer place than Tongataboo for 

 tlie rearing of lliccp. 



As we lay at anchor, this iHand bore a very different 

 afpe<5t from any we had lately feen, and formed a moft 

 beautiful landfcape. It is higher than any we had paffed, 

 iince leaving New Zealand (as Kao may juftly be reckoned 

 an immenfe rock), and from its top, which is almoft flat, 

 declines very gently toward the fea. As the other ifles, of 

 this clufter, are level, the eye can difcover nothing but the 

 trees that cover them ; but here the land, rifmg gently up- 

 ward, prefents us with an extenfive profpecT:, where groves 

 of trees are only interfperfed at irregular diftanccs, ia 



beautiful 



