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great terror at the sight of the horses and cattle, 

 but they were literally frozen with amazement 

 when they perceived the sheep and goats, which 

 they took to be birds. 



From Wateea, Cook went to a little neigh- 

 bouring island, called Otakootala. Lieutenant 

 Gore landed with a few sailors and brought back 

 a hundred coconuts for each ship and grass and 

 young palm branches for the livestock. No 

 islanders showed themselves, but, as a delicate 

 attention. Gore left on the shore an axe and some 

 nails as the price of what he had taken. 



Leaving the shores of this little island. Cook 

 steered for Hervey Island, which he had dis- 

 covered three years previously, and which had 

 seemed to him to be uninhabited. It was, this 

 time, thickly populated by a race of Indians, 

 who seemed to difler entirely from the natives 

 of Wateea. The Hervey islanders, whose faces 

 were coarse and brutal, showed hostile inten- 

 tions, and very soon proved that they would have 

 carried ofif the palm in any stealing contest. One 

 of them secured, with the aid of a crooked stick, 

 a sailor's jacket which was hung up on board 

 ship. However, some barter was possible, and 

 fish was exchanged for a few nails. Since Her- 

 vey Island did not afford a harbour suitable for 

 his ships. Cook left it, and on April 14th ar- 

 rived at Palmerston Island. His hopes were 



