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1777' as a very fmall one ; whereas Vavaoo, according to the- 

 united teflimony of all our friends at Tongataboo, exceeds 

 the fize of their own ifland, and has high mountains. I 

 Ihould certainly have viiited it ; and have accompanied Fee- 

 nou from Hapaee, if he had not then difcouraged me, by 

 reprefenting it to be very inconfiderable, and without any 

 harbour. But Poulaho, the king, afterward aiTured me, that 

 it was a large ifland ; and that it not only produced every 

 thing in common with Tongataboo, but had the peculiar 

 advantage of polTelling feveral ftrearas of freQi w^ater, with 

 as good a harbour as that which we found at his capital 

 ifland. He offered to attend me, if I would vifit it ; adding, 

 that, if I did not find every thing agreeing with his repre- 

 fentation, I might kill him. I had not the leaft doubt 

 of the truth of his intelligence ; and was fatisfied that 

 Feenou, from fome interelled view, attempted to de- 

 ceive me. 



Hamoa, which is alfo under the dominion of Tongataboo, 

 lies two days fail North Weft from Vavaoo. It was de- 

 fcribed to me, as the largeft of all their iflands ; as affording 

 harbours and good water ^ and as producing, in abundance, 

 every article of refrefliment found at the places we vifited. 

 Poulaho, himfelf, frequently refides there. It fhould feem,. 

 that the people of this ifland are in high eftimation at Ton- 

 gataboo ; for we were told, that fome of the fongs and 

 dances, with which we were entertained, had been copied, 

 from theirs ; and we faw fome houfes, fliid to be built after 

 their fajliion. Mr. Anderfon, alv/ays inquifltive about fuch 



by Captain Cook, i?, probably, Mr. Dalrymple's, in his Colleflicn of Voyage?,, 

 where Tafman's track is marked accurately ; and feveral very fmall fpots of land are 

 laid down in the fituation here mentioned. 



matters,. 



