IJO VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



and fhortly after departed in our barge, with 

 part of her fuite. 



We knew, from Bligh's narrative, [page 174,) 

 that at the moment when he was preparing to 

 quit the ifland of Toofoa, the man whom he 

 had fent on fhore to caft off his boat's flern-fafl, 

 had been killed by an iflander. The natives of 

 TongataboS informed us, that this murder had 

 been committed by a chief named Mondoiilalo ; 

 but we could not learn the motives which had 

 led him to this excefs of barbarity : every one of 

 us was aftonifhed at the indifference with which 

 thefe people related fuch a tale. 



We had already {ttv\y in the hands of the na- 

 tives, fevcral knives of Englifh manufadure. 

 Early on the morning of the 30th, F^^oa brought 

 us a blunt bayonet, which he had got from 

 Captain Cook, and which he begged us to 

 fharpen. 



In the afternoon we vifited fome iflots, fitu- 

 ated at a fmall diftance from each other, be- 

 tween Tongataboo and Panga'imatoo; they are 

 connected by a flioal, which is ahnoft entirely 

 dry at low water. 



At firfl we reached a fand-bank, newly rifen 

 from the bofom of the deep, and called by 

 the iflanders Inioii, on which, however, was 

 already feen a conjmcncemen: of vegetation. 

 Winding, then, to get to the fmall ifland of 



Manima, 



