THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 



had happened. Accordins; to his information, there are '777- 



July- 

 two iflands near each other, which he himfelf had heen at. ' u — 



The one he defcnbed as high, and peaked hke Kao, and he 



called it Kootahee; the other, where the people of the ihip 



landed, called Neeootabootaboo, he reprefented as much 



lower. He added, that the natives of both are the fame fort 



of people with thofe of Tongataboo; built their canoes 



in the fame manner ; that their iflands had hogs and 



fowls ; and, in general, the fame vegetable produdlions. 



The fliip, fo pointedly referred to, in this converfation, could 



be no other than the Dolphin ; the only fmgle fliip from 



Europe, as far as we have ever learned, that had touched, 



of late years, at any ifland in this part of the Pacific Ocean, 



prior to my former vifit of the Friendly Iflands *. 



But the moft confiderable iflands in this neighbourhood, 

 that we now heard of (and we heard a great deal about 

 them), are Hamoa, Vavaoo, and Feejee. Each of thefe was 

 reprefented to us as larger than Tongataboo. No European, 

 that we know of, has, as yet, feen any one of them. Taf- 

 man, indeed, lays down in his chart, an ifland nearly in 

 the fituation where I fuppofe Vavaoo to be ; that is, about 

 the latitude of 19° f. But, then, that ifland is there marked 



as 



* See Captain Wallis's Voyage, in Hawkefworth's Colledion, Vol. i. p. 492 — 

 494. Captain V/allis there calls both thefe iflands high ones. But the fuperior 

 iieight of one of them may be inferred, from his faying, that it appears Hie a fugcir- 

 loaf. This ftrongly marks its refemblance to Kao. From comparing Poulaho's in- 

 telligence to Captain Cook, with Captain Wallis's account, it feems to be part all 

 doubt, that Eofcawen's Ifland is our Kootahee, and Keppel's Ifland our Neeootaboo- 

 taboo. The laft is one of the large iflands marked in the foregoing lift. The 

 reader, who has been already apprized of the variations of our people in writing 

 down what the natives pronounced, will hardly doubt that Kottejeea and Kootahee are 

 the fame. 



f Neither Dalrymple nor Campbell, in their accounts of Tafman's voyage, take 

 any particular notice of his having feen fuch an ifland. The chart here referred to, 



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