

A VOYAGE TO 



On the North point, which is flat and barren, Hands the 

 village of Kowrowa ; and in the bottom cf the bay, near a 

 grove of rallcocoa-nut trees, there is another village of a more 

 confidcrable fize, called Kakooa : between them, runs a high, 

 rocky cliff, inacceffible from the fea fhore. On the South 

 fide, t*he coafl, for about a mile inland, has a rugged ap- 

 pearance; beyond which the country rifes with a gradual 

 afcent, and is oveifpread with cultivated inclofures and 

 groves of cocoa-nut trees, where the habitations of the na- 

 tives are fcattered in great numbers. The fhore, all round 

 the bay, is covered with a black coral rock, which makes 

 the landing very dangerous in rough weather; except at the 

 village of Kakooa, where there is a fine fandy beach, with 

 a Moral, or burying-place, at one extremity, and a fmall 

 well of frefh water, at the other. This bay appearing to 

 Captain Cook a proper place to refit the fliips, and lay in an 

 additional fupply of water and provifions, we moored on the 

 North fide, about a quarter of a mile from the fhore, Kow- 

 rowa bearing North Weft. 



As foon as the inhabitants perceived our intention of 

 anchoring in the bay, they came off from the fhore in afto- 

 niflr.ng numbers, andexprcfTcd their joy by fingingandfhout- 

 ing, and exhibiting a variety of wild and extravagant gcflures. 

 The fides, the decks, and rigging of both mips were foon 

 completely covered with them; and a multitude of women 

 anil boys, who had not been able to get canoes, came fwim- 

 ming round us in flioals ; many of whom, not finding room 

 on board, remained the whole day playing in the water. 



Among the chiefs who came on board the Resolution, 



was a young man, called Pareea, whom we foon perceived 



to be apcrlon of great authority. On prefenting himfelf to 



2 Captain 



