192 VOYAGE tN SEARCH 



noes would confent to come into our fhip; and 

 when we wiflied to make them a prefent, th^ 

 men undertook to carry the articles to them. 



Thefe favages had come off in double canoes^ 

 of the form of that which is reprefented irl 

 Plate XLIV. Their maft was fixed at an equal 

 diftance from the two canoes, and towards the 

 foremoft extremity of the platform, by meah-i 

 of which they are faftened to each other. They 

 are not built in fo workman-like a manner as 

 thofe of the Friendly Iflands, and they are very 

 far from going fo faft through the water. There' 

 was one which received fo much damage in her 

 fide by ftriking violently againft our fhip, that 

 file filled in a very little time. The favages 

 who were in her immediately jumped into the 

 other, and fuffered themfelves to be drifted by 

 the current, which carried them towards the 

 land. The other canoes quitted us foon after, 

 and foliovrcd the damaged canoe to give her 

 afliflancc. Very early in the morning of the 

 2ifl:, we weighed, in order to warp towards Ob- 

 fervatory lOand, by means of fcveral hawfers 

 made fall to each other; but they broke re- 

 peatedly, and obliged us to let go the anchor 

 again. 



We vrerc immediately furrounded by canoes, 

 conducted by the natives, who came on board 

 and fold us a variety of their articles, which 



may 



