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taken it along with him, proceeded to Kowrowa, and landed p 1 , 779 ' 



with the Lieutenant and nine marines. He immediately «* — , '. 



marched into the village, where he was received with the 

 ufual marks of refpedr. ; the people proftrating themfelves 

 before him, and bringing their accuftomed offerings of 

 fmall hogs. Finding that there was no fufpicion of his de- 

 fign, his next ftep was, to inquire for Terreeoboo, and the 

 two boys, his fons, who had been his conftant guefts on 

 board the Refolution. In a fhort time, the boys returned 

 along with the natives, who had been fent in fearch of 

 them, and immediately led Captain Cook to the houfe 

 where the king had flept. They found the old man jufl 

 awoke from fleep ; and, after a fhort converfation about the 

 lofs of the cutter, from which Captain Cook was convinced 

 that he was in no wife privy to it, he invited him to return 

 in the boat, and fpend the day on board the Refolution. To 

 this propofal the king readily confented, and immediately 

 got up to accompany him. 



Things were in this profperous train, the two boys being 

 already in the pinnace, and the reft of the party having ad- 

 vanced near the water-fide, when an elderly woman called 

 Kanee-kabareea, the mother of the boys, and one of the 

 king's favourite wives, came after him, and with many 

 tears, and entreaties, befought him not to go on board. At 

 the fame time, two Chiefs, who came along with her, laid 

 hold of him, and infilling, that he fhould go no farther, 

 forced him to fit down. The natives, who were collecting 

 in prodigious numbers along the fliore, and had probably 

 been alarmed by the firing of the great guns, and the ap- 

 pearances of hoflility in the bay, began to throng round 

 Captain Cook and their king. In this fituation, the Lieute- 

 nant of marines, obferving that his men were huddled clofe 



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