T H E P A C I F I C O C E A N. 36; 



fome people, from Kao, informed us, that there was a {Iream w/- 

 of water there, which, pouring down from the mountain, 

 runs into the fea, on the South Weft fide of the iiland ; that is, 

 on the fide that faces Toofoa, another iiland remarkable for 

 its height, as alfo for having a confiderable volcano in it, 

 which, as has been already mentioned, burnt violently all 

 the time that we were in its neighbourhood. It may be 

 worth while for future navigators, to attend to this intelli- 

 gence about the ftream of water at Kao ; efpecially as we 

 learned that there was anchorage on that part of the coaft. 

 The black ftone, of which the natives of the Fiiendly Iflands 

 make their hatchets, and other tools, we were informed, ig 

 the produdlion of Toofoa. 



Under the denomination of Friendly Iflands, we mufl in- 

 clude, not only the group at Hapaee, which I vifited, but 

 alfo all thofe iflands, that have been difcovered nearly'- 

 under the fame meridian, to the North, as well as fome 

 others that have never been feen, hitl'^erto, by any Euro- 

 pean navigators ; but are under the dominion of Tongata- 

 boo, which, though not the largeft, is the capital, and feat 

 of government. 



According to the information that we recei\'^d there, this 

 Archipelago is very extenfive. Above one hundred and 

 fifty iflands were reckoned up to us by the natives, who 

 made ufe of bits of leaves to afcertain their number ; and 

 Mr. Anderfon, with his ufual diligence, even procured 

 all their names. Fifteen of them are faid to be high, or 

 hilly, fuch as Toofoa, and Eooa ; and thirty-five of them 

 large. Of thefe, only three were feen this voyage; Ha- 

 paee (w^iich is confidered by the natives as one ifland), Ton-. 

 gataboo, and Eooa : of the fize of the unexplored thirty- 

 two, ivithing more can be mentioned, but that they muft 

 2 be 



