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hands carved upon it very neatly and painted red; they had also high- 
peaked sterns, wrought in filagree and adorned with feathers, from the top 
of which depended two long streamers, made of feathers, which almost 
reached the water. Some of these canoes were between fifty and sixty 
feet long, and rowed with eighteen paddles by the like number of men, who 
look the same way they row, striking their paddles into the water with their 
points downward, at the same time bending their bodies forward, and as it 
were, driving the waves behind them. They gave us two heivos in their 
canoes which were very diverting. They beat time with their paddles, and 
ended all at once with the word epaah, at the same instant striking their 
paddles on the thwarts, all which afforded a truly comic act. - 
** On the 16th we had several fisher canoes come to us, and, after much 
persuasion, they gave us some fish for cloth and trinkets ; but none of their 
fish was quite fresh, and some of it stank intolerably. They went away 
very well satisfied, and then a larger canoe, full of people, came up to us, 
having their faces shockingly besmeared with some paint. An old man, 
who sat in the stern, had on a garment of some beast’s skin, with long hair, 
` dark brown, and white border, which we would have purchased, but they 
were not willing to part with anything. When the captain threw them a 
piece of red baize for it, they paddled away immediately, held a conference 
with the fishers’ boats, and then returned to the ship. We had laid a 
scheme to trepan them,* intending to have thrown a running bow-line 
about the head of the canoe, and to have hoisted her up to the anchor: 
but just as we had got her a-head for that purpose, they seized Tupaea’s 
little boy, who was in the main-chains, and made off with him, which 
prevented the execution of our plan. We fired some muskets and great 
guns at them, and killed several of them.t The boy soon after disengaged 
himself from them, jumped into the sea, swam toward the ship, and we 
lowered a boat down and took him up, while the canoes made to land as 
fast as possible. 
“In the evening we were over against a point of land, which, from the 
circumstance of stealing the boy, we called Cape Kidnappers. On doubling 
the cape we thought to have met with a snug bay, but were disappointed, 
the land tending away to a point southwards. Soon after we saw a small 
* Not mentioned in Cook. 
T I saw in 1813-45, at Waimarama, a village a few miles south of Cape Kidnappers, 
an aged native, who remembered this incident, and I also obtained from several natives, 
descendants from and near relatives to the sufferers on that occasion, their account of 
affair, received from their forefathers; five, it appears, were killed, and several 
wounded. One of the poor fellows had received a ball in his knee joint, which could not 
be extracted, and which made him a helpless cripple during a long life.—(W. C., Journal, 
MS.) 
