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a speech, which lasted about twenty minutes ; the king, 

 who stood opposite to him, answered in what seemed to 

 be set replies. During this discourse he delivered at 

 different times, a handkerchief, a black silk neckcloth, 

 some beads and plantains, as presents to their Eatua, or 

 deity. He received in return, for the Eatua of the English, 

 a hog, some young plantains, and two bunches of feathers, 

 which were carried on board. These ceremonies were 

 considered as a kind of ratification of a treaty between 

 the English and the king of Huaheine. 



Wednesday, the 19th, they went ashore, and carried some 

 hatchets with them, with which they procured three large 

 hogs. As they proposed to sail in the afternoon, the king, 

 accompanied by some others of the natives, came on 

 board to take his leave, when his majesty received from 

 Captain Cook a small pewter plate, with the following 

 inscription : " His Britannic Majesty's ship Endeavour, 

 Lieutenant Cook commander, 16th July, 1769." He also 

 was presented with some medals, or counters, resembling 

 the coin of England, and a few other trifles. 



This island is distant from Otaheite about thirty leagues, 

 and is about twenty miles in circumference. The people 

 are of a lazy disposition, though they are stouter and larger 

 made than those of Otaheite. 



From Huaheine they sailed for the island of Ulietea, 

 and in the afternoon came within a league or two of the 

 shore. They anchored in a bay, which is formed by a 

 reef, on the north side of the island. Two canoes of natives 

 soon came off from the shore, and brought with them two 

 small hogs, which they exchanged for some nails and 

 beads. On the 20t&, Mr. Banks, the Captain, and others, 

 went on shore, accompanied by Tupia, who introduced 

 them with the same kind of ceremonies that had taken 

 place on their landing at Huaheine ; after which, Captain 

 Cook took possession of this and the adjacent islands, 

 in the name of the King of Great Britain. 



On the 24th, they got under sail, and steered to the north- 

 ward within the reef, towards an opening five or six leagues 

 distant. In effecting this, they were in the greatest danger 

 of striking on a rock ; the man who sounded, crying out on 

 a sudden, two fathoms, at which they were much alarmed, 

 but happily got clear without receiving any damage. 



On the 25th, they were within a league or two of the 

 island of Otaha, but the wind continuing contrary, they 

 could not get near enough to land till the 28th, in the 

 morning, when Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander went in the 

 longboat, with the master, to sound a harbour on the east 

 side of the island, which they found safe and convenient, 



