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the delicacy and difintcrcftednefs of his conduct, even the 

 people he employed could not be prevailed on to accept the 

 fmallefl prefent. After remaining out fix days, our Officers 

 returned, without having been able to penetrate above 

 twenty miles into the ifland ; partly from want of proper 

 guides, and partly from the impracticability of the country. 



WcJr.cf. 27. The head or" the Refolution's rudder being found ex- 

 ceedingly fhaken, and mod of the pintles either loofe or 

 broken, it was unhung, and fent on more, on the 27th 

 in the morning, to undergo a thorough repair. At the fame 

 time, the carpenters were fent into the country, under 

 conduct of fomc of Kapo's people, to cut planks for the 

 the head rail work, which was alfo entirely decayed and 

 rotten. 



Tho/fdaysg. On the 2'dth, Captain Gierke, whofe ill health confined 

 him, for the mod part, on board, paid Terreeoboo his firft 

 vifit, at his hut on fhore. He was received with the fame 

 formalizes as were obferved with Captain Cook ; and, on 

 his coming away, though the vifit was quite unexpected, 

 he received a prefent of thirty large hogs, and as much 

 fruit and roots as his crew could confume in a week. 



As we had not yet feen any thing of their fports or ath- 

 letic exercifes, the natives, at the requcft of fome of our 

 Officers, entertained us this evening with a boxing-match. 

 Though thefe games were much inferior, as well in point 

 of (Solemnity and magnificence, as in the fkill and powers 

 of the combatants, to what we had feen exhibited at the 

 friendly Iilands ; yet, as they differed in fome particulars, it 

 may not be improper to give a fhort account of them. We 

 found a vaft concourfe of people aflembled on a level fpot 

 of ground, at a little diflance from our tents. A long fpacc 



was 



