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A VOYAGE TO 



•779- ingly, the boats of both mips, well manned and armed, 

 were ftationed acrofs the bay ; and, before I left the ftiip, 

 fome great guns had been fired at two large canoes, that 

 were attempting to make their efcape. 



It was between feven and eight o'clock when we quitted 

 the ftiip together ; Captain Cook in the pinnace, having Mr. 

 Phillips, and nine marines with him; and myfelf in the 

 fmall boat. The laft orders I received from him were, to 

 quiet the minds of the natives, on our fide of the bay, by 

 alluring them, they mould not be hurt ; to keep my people 

 together ; and to be on my guard. We then parted ; the 

 Captain went toward Kowrowa, where the king refided ; 

 and I proceeded to the beach. My firft care, on going 

 afhore, was to give flricSt orders to the marines to remain 

 within the tent, to load their pieces with ball, and not to 

 quit their arms. Afterward I took a walk to the huts of 

 old Kaoo, and the priefts, and explained to them, as well as 

 I could, the object of the hoftile preparations, which had 

 exceedingly alarmed them. I found, that they had already 

 heard of the cutter's being ftolen, and I allured them, that 

 though Captain Cook was refolved to recover it, and to 

 punifh the authors of the theft, yet that they, and the people 

 of the village on our fide, need not be under the fmalleft 

 apprehenfion of fuflering any evil from us. I defired the 

 priefts to explain this to the people, and to tell them not to 

 be alarmed, but to continue peaceable and quiet. Kaoo 

 cifkcd me, with great earneftnefs, if Terreeoboo was to be 

 hurt > I allured him, he was not; and both he and the reft of 

 his brethren fecmed much fatisfied with this afTurance. 



In the mean time, Captain Cook, having called ofF the 



launch, which was ftationed at the North point of the bay, and 



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