ANNAMOOKA, HAAPAI, TONGATABU 217 



fertile. Cook therefore sowed there some Euro- 

 pean seeds. 



While Cook stayed at Haapai, he saw one day 

 a large sailing canoe approaching the Resolution. 

 The islanders on board this craft told him that 

 it contained Pulaho, King of Tongatabu and of 

 all the islands of the Friendly group. Cook was 

 surprised at this news, for Taipa and many other 

 chiefs had told him that this title belonged to 

 Feenu. The latter, who was profoundly em- 

 barrassed, confessed his deceit later, and ac- 

 knowledged that although he was a very power- 

 ful chief, the royal dignity certainly belonged to 

 Pulaho. Cook understood that the game of bluff 

 was not the sole prerogative of Europeans. He 

 received Pulaho with all the pomp reserved for 

 great chiefs. "I welcomed him on board," he 

 wrote humorously in his Journal, "with all the 

 more pleasure, since he brought me two pigs. 

 He was extremely fat. If rank and authority 

 are proportionate among the natives to size of 

 body, he was certainly the principal chief we 

 had yet met. Very corpulent, in spite of his 

 short stature, he looked like a big barrel. He 

 seemed about forty. His hair was smooth and 

 his features differed greatly from those of the 

 people. I found him intelligent, grave and se- 

 date. He examined, with singular attention, the 

 ship and the things which were new to him, and 



