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A VOYAGE TO 



1779- 

 Februarv. 



Thurfday4. 



Friday ;. 



ncral, fo I cannot too often, nor too particularly, mention 

 the unbounded and conftant friendfhip of their pricns. 



On my part, I fpared no endeavours to conciliate their af- 

 fections, and gain their efteem ; and I had the good fortune 

 to fucceed fo far, that, when the time of our departure was 

 made known, I was flrongly folicited to remain behind, not 

 without offers of the mod flattering kind. When I excufed 

 myfelf, by faying, that Captain Cook would not give his 

 confent, they propofed, that I mould retire into the moun- 

 tains; where, they faid, they would conceal me, till after 

 the departure of the fhips ; and on my farther alluring 

 them, that the Captain would net leave the bay without me, 

 Terreeoboo and Kaoo waited upon Captain Cook, whofe fon 

 they fuppofed I was, with a formal requeft, that I might 

 be left behind. The Captain, to avoid giving a pofitive re- 

 fufal, to an oiler fo kindly intended, told them, that he 

 could not part with me, at that time, but that he fhould re- 

 turn to the ifland next year, and would then endeavour to 

 fettle the matter to their fatisfaclion. 



Early in the morning of the 4th, we unmoored, and failed 

 out of the bay, with the Difcovery in company, and were 

 followed by a great number of canoes. Captain Cook's de- 

 fign was to finilh the furvcy of Ovvhyhee, before he vifited 

 the other iflands, in hopes of meeting with a road better 

 fheltercd, than the bay we had juft left ; and in cafe of not 

 fuccceding here, he purpofed to take a view of the South 

 Eaft part of Mowee, where the natives informed us we 

 fhould find an excellent harbour. 



We had calm weather all this and the following day, 

 which made our progrefs to the Northward very flow. We 

 were accompanied by a great number of the natives in 



their 



