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'7-9- firous of paying his refpccts, and we recollected the pig 



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1 ir- — ' to be the fame that had been given to Koah juft before. 



This leading us to fufpect fome trick, we found, on further 

 inquiry, the pretended chief to be an ordinary perfon j and 

 on connecting this with other circumflances, we had reafon 

 to fufpect, that it was not the firft time we had been the 

 dupes of the like impofition. 



.SunJay 24. Things continued in this (late till the 24th, when we were 

 a good deal furprized to find that no canoes were fuffered 

 to put off from the fhorc, and that the natives kept clofe to 

 their houfes. After feveral hours fufpence, we learned that 

 the bay was tabooed, and all intercourfe with us interdicted, on 

 account of the arrival of Terrceoboo. As we had not fore- 

 feen an accident of this fort, the crews of both fhips were 

 obliged to pafs the day without their ufual fupply of vege- 



tiionda}- 25. tables. The next morning, therefore, they endeavoured, 

 both by threats and promifes, to induce the natives to come 

 along-fidc; and as fome of them were at laft venturing to 

 put off, a chief was obferved attempting to drive them away. 

 A mufquet was immediately fired over his head, to make him 

 defift, which had the defired effect, and refreshments were 

 foon after purchafed as ufual. In the afternoon, Terrceoboo 

 arrived, and vifned the fhips in a private manner, attended 

 only by one canoe, in which were his wife and children. 

 He ftaid on board till near ten o'clock, when he returned to 

 the village of Kowrowa. 



;6. The next day, about noon, the king, in a large canoe, 

 attended by two orhcrs, fet out from the village, and 

 paddled toward the fhips in great ftate. Their appearance 

 was grand and magnificent. In the fii-ft canoe was Ter- 

 rceoboo and his chiefs, dreffed in their rich feathered clokes 

 . '. helmets, and armed with long fpears and diggers; in 



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