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to lad till our arrival at another ftation, where we could 

 depend upon a frefh. fupply. I was not forry, befides, to 

 have had an opportunity of bettering the condition of thefe 

 good people, by leaving the ufeful animals, before-men- 

 tioned, among them ; and, at the fame time, thofe defigned 

 for Otaheite, received frefli fhength in the pailures of Ton- 

 gataboo. Upon the whole, therefore, the advantages we 

 received, by touching here, were very great ; and I had the 

 additional fatisfadlion to reflecft, that they were received, 

 without retarding, one moment, the profecution of the 

 great object of our voyage ; the feafon, for proceeding to 

 the North, being, as has been already obferved, loft, before 

 I took the refolution of bearing away for thefe iflands. 



But, befides the immediate advantages, which both the 

 natives of the Friendly Iflands, and ourfelves, received by 

 this vifir, future navigators from Europe, if any fuch fliould 

 ever tread our fteps, will profit by the knowledge I acquired 

 of the geography of this part of the Pacific Ocean ; and the 

 more philofophical reader, who loves to view human nature 

 in new fituations, and to fpeculate on Angular, but faichful 

 reprefentations of the perfons, the cuftoms, the arts, the 

 religion, the government, and the language of uncultivated 

 man, in remote and frefli difcovered quarters of the globe, 

 will, perhaps, find matter of amufement, if not of inftruc- 

 tion, in the. information which I have been enabled to con- 

 vey to him, concerning the inhabitants of this Archipelago. 

 I fhall fufpend my narrative, of the progrefs of the voyage, 

 while I faithfully relate what I had opportunities of collect- 

 ing on thefe feveral topics. 



\Ve found, by our experience, that the befl articles for 

 traffic, at thefe iflands, are iron tools in general. Axes and 

 liarchets ; nails, from the largefl fpike down to tenpenny 



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