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longui bongui^ rniizi miizi. I niulr be excilfed 

 from giving a literal tranflation of thef; words ; 

 but it will be feen by the vocabulary of the 

 languae of the Friendly lOands, which is to be 

 found towads the end of this volume, that 

 thofe young girls were not afraid of divulging 

 what had palTed between them and our people, 

 and of promifing that they would again do 

 the fame thing the next day. 



0\\ the 9th, feveral chiefs came to fee us very 

 early in the morning, and announced to the in- 

 habitants, who were already alTembled in their 

 canoes round the fliip, that we were on the point 

 of quitting their ifland; when we were very 

 much fiirprifed to fee immediately a great num- 

 ber of young girls melt into tears, at the fame 

 time uttering piercing cries. Their grief was 

 doubtlefs very poignant, but it was of no long 

 duration; for fliortly after we faw them making 

 merry with their female companions. 



Futtafaihe begged us to fharpen for him two 

 hatchets which had been given to him by Cap- 

 tain Cook, and which he had got newly forged 

 on board of the Efperance. This chief was ac- 

 companied by his wife, who for a long time 

 amufed herfelf in playing with a fort of cup and 

 ball of the invention of thefe iflanders; it con- 

 fiiied in making pafs through a very fmail femi- 

 circle of lliell, a wooden ball which Ihe threw 



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