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although we had much facility in pronouncing 

 the terms of the language of thefe inhabitants, 

 it was not the fame with them in refpecfl to ours. 

 For inflance, wifhing to repeat the word Fran- 

 ^ois, they all pronounced it Palan^ois ; in- 

 ftead of Beaupre, Beawpiliy &c. &c. Feejioit 

 talked to us about Otaheite, and told us that 

 he had feen Omai at Annamooka. Perhaps 

 this was the fame Feeiiou who had been particu- 

 larly acquainted with Cook in his laft voyage. 

 Captain Cook however fays that he was of a 

 good height. 



The people of his fuite talked to us a great 

 deal about King Tcsbou, of whofe power they 

 boafled much ; and in order to fhew us how 

 far he was fupcrior to Fecnou, they raifed the 

 right arm very high in pronouncing his name^ 

 and then carried the left hand towards the el- 

 bow, to indicate the degree of inferiority of 

 FeenoH. The latter admitted this pre-eminence 

 of Tcobou, who he told us was to come on 

 board rhe next day. 



I had formed the proje6l of going to fpend 

 the^Sthon the ifland of Tongataboo, with feme 

 of my fhipmates ; but the Admiral pcrfuaded 

 me to defer this party till the chiefs had proved 

 to us, that they had really come to a refolu- 

 tion of checking the depredations of their fub- 

 je(fls. 



* A great 



