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with preciplration as Toon as fomc water had 

 been thrown on them with a firc-cngiae: but 

 the fuccefs was not hiTing , for, knowing very 

 Hiortly that they ra.i no other rifk than that 

 of being wetted, it wa^ without efte^t that the 

 fiime engine was continued to be j'layed u them; 

 they no longer ftirred f'-oni the pkiec whicn they 

 oecupicd. Dauribe:;u, the Ae-niral's captain, 

 then gave orders for vcrfettini them w 'uyiercr 

 Giir boLjs ilicLldgo o ihorc; andprefentl/ our 

 bifcay-'n, feinng oiT fo^- the nc-ireil ceaft with 

 \ariou.s inHruments Jcftincd for niaking alrro- 

 nomic d obfervations, rowed after a canoe car- 

 rying three men and two girls : fnc prefcntly 

 iinfaipped the canoe's outrigger, and ue fnould 

 have had tne mortification of feeing thefe two 

 pretty creatures fall into the water, had not the 

 men prevented this accident by jumping over- 

 board ; tv,o of them united their ftrength to 

 fupport their canoe, v.hile tlic third Hepped the 

 outrigger, and they foon paddled away towards 

 Tongataooo. The other canoes, apprized of 

 the danger, had fuflicient dexterity to avoid 

 fuch of our boats as endctvoured afterwards to 

 overfet them. 



Fccnc-u ean.c on boani very early in the morn- 

 ing with 7'^,.';,', the King's bn^ther. Thefe 

 two chiefs invited the \dmiral to co.ne to an 

 entertainment whieii the Kin- ; tr.irpoied giving 



him 



