FRIENDLY ISLANDS 
Friendly (but none of the common sort,) cones, crabs, cray fish, 
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sea curious kinds of star fish. There are no towns 
on the island, and the houses are built in the 
midst of separate plantations. These plantations are in- 
closed by fences of reeds:about six feet high, and these 
inclosures called Abbeys, frequently contain four or five 
houses. Smaller spaces round each habitation, are call- 
ed Ladores. : uci : Sell 
Eooa, named by Tasman Middleburgh, lies to the 
south-east of Tongataboo, in 21° 24’ South Latitude, 
_ and 174° 30’ West Longitude. It is of an oval form, 
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Mayorga 
about 12 leagues in circuit, of greater height than any of 
the neighbouring islands, and presents a more varied and 
delightful. aspect. The coasts are shaded with a variety 
of trees, among which the houses and plantations are 
scattered ; but the interior parts are little cultivated, and 
possess a high degree of natural beauty. The. south- 
east side rises immediately from the sea with great ine- 
qualities, and is rather hilly, though not mountainous. 
The plains and meadows lie towards the north-west, ow 
are covered with | interspersed with groves o 
trees at irregular giao with sional dee tions 
and numerous paths, in every direction, and in beautiful 
disorder. Thisisland, like Tongataboo, and indeed most 
of the tropical isles in the Pacific Ocean, is surrounded 
with coral rocks; but there is good anchorage, called by 
Cook, English Road, on the north-west side, with conve. 
nient landing for boats.at all times of the tide. , 
Annamooka, named’ Rotterdam. by Tasman, lies in 
20° 46’ South Latitude; and 185° 12! East. Longitude, 
It is a small triangular island, each side of which is near- 
ly four miles in length, and is the most known of a clus- 
ter called Arbai. . All the rocks and stones are coral 
except in one place, where a large mass of calcare- 
ous stone, of a yellowish colour, was observed. . In the 
centre of the island, is a salt water lake about a mileand 
a half in breadth, which has no apparent communication 
with the sea; but there is not a single stream of fresh 
water to be found in any part of it, and only afew brack- 
ish springs too small for watering a ship. There is a 
considerable proportion of waste land on the island ; and 
-its inhabitants are much affected with a kind of leprosy, 
or scrofulous disorder, which chiefly attacks the face ; 
but in its productions, and in other respects, it greatly 
resembles Tongataboo. 
Hapaee islands, namely Haanno, Foa, Lefooga, and 
Hoolawa, lie in 19° South Latimde. They are very low 
land, extremely similar to each other in appearance, and 
each of them about six or seven miles in length. Le- 
foogu, which lies in the centre, is superior in point of 
cultivation to Annamooka, and many of its plantations 
are inclosed in such a manner, that the fences running 
parallel to each other form spacious public roads. These 
islands are joined to each other by a reef of coral rocks, 
which are dry at low. water, when the natives can walk 
on foot from the one to the other, 
Mayorga, a group of islands about 100. miles north- 
west of Hapae, were discovered in 1781 by the Spanish 
navigator Maurelle ; and were visited by, Captain Ed- 
wards in 1791, who named them Howe’s islands. The 
Jargest is nearly as extensive as Tongataboo, fertile and 
well cultivated, affording all the vegetable productions of 
these latitudes, and particularly stored with the cloth 
plant. 
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Neootabootaboo, and Kootahé, situated in South Latis 
tude 15° 55', and 173° 48’ West Longitude, were disco- 
vered by Schouten and Lemaire in 1616. The former is 
one of the larger islands in these seas, fertile and populous. 
They were visited by Captain Wallis in 1767, who call« 
ed them Keppel’s and Boscawen's islands; and in 1787: 
by Perouse, with whom the natives traded very fieely,: 
but had a more ferocious appearance than the more south=: 
ern islanders. ; 
Toofoa, or Amattafoa, is situated about 12 leagues: 
north north-west from Annamooka, and is about five. 
leagues in circumference. It is thinly inhabited, but was 
reported to afford excellent water. It is chiefly remark- 
able as containing a voleano, the smoke of which was 
seen by Captain Cook at ten leagues distance ; and which 
was described by the natives of the adjoining islands, as 
having been observed to ascend without intermission as 
far back as their memory and traditions could reach. 
They added, that it sometimes threw up large stones. It 
was at this island that Captain Bligh, after the mutiny of 
his crew, attempting with 18 of his people to procure a 
supply of bread, fruit, and water, was attacked by the na- 
tives, who killed one man, and wounded. almost: every 
individual of his company... 
Three very considerable islands, or rather groups, 
were described to Captain. Cook, Jarger than any yet 
mentioned, but they. are still very imperfectly known to 
Europeans. Their names are Hamoa, Vavaoo, and Fee- 
jee. Hamao, which is two days sail north-west from 
Vayaoo, is: said to be the largest of all the islands, afford+ 
ing safe harbours, good water,. and all the refreshments 
produced in the other places. Vavaoo, or Afootouou, is 
the name not of one but of a group of islands, of which 
little is known, except that they are abundantly stored 
with hogs. Feejee, which is three days sail from Ton- 
gataboo, in the direction of north-west by west, and 
which is surrounded by a cluster of islands, abounds. in 
hogs, dogs, fowls, and all the fruits and ether vegetables 
found in these islands. Its breed of dogs are very nu- 
merous, and from them had been procured the few which 
were seen at Tongataboo, where they were not introdu- 
ced till after 1773, and from which they had not,been 
sent to any of the other islands in 1777. The natives 
of Feejee * are of a darker colour than those of the other 
Friendly islands ; more formidable in war, by their dex- 
terity in the use of bows and slings ; more savage in their 
manners, especially in the practice‘of eating the enemies 
whom they kil) in battle ; and more ingenious in their ar- 
ticles of workmanship, of which Captain Cook saw several 
specimens ; such as variegated mats, earthen pots, beau- 
-tifuly chequered cloth, and clubs and spears covered with 
great ingenuity. These islands of Feejee appear to. be 
the same which Tasman named Prince William’s Isles, 
and were explored both by Captain, Bligh in the Provi- 
dence 1792, and by Captain Wilson in the Duff 1796. 
They reach northward as.far as 15° 33’ of Latitude, and 
south to 19° 15’, and lie in 178° West Longitude. 
Captain Barber in the Snow Arthur, visited the western 
part of the group in 1794, and was attacked by a num- 
ber of the natives in canoes, who attempted to board the 
ship, and wounded several of the crew with their arrows. 
All these islands which have been described, and all 
those which form the archipelago named Friendly, are 
under the government of one king, excepting Feejee, 
% ‘The most recent account ofthe Feejee islanders, is furnished by an extract from the Sydney Gazette, published in the Scoteh’ Maga, 
aine for 1810, page 601. 
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