JULY 1769 HUAHINE Il 
15th. Our Indian often prayed to Zane for a wind, and 
as often boasted to me of the success of his prayers, which 
I plainly saw he never began till he perceived a breeze so 
near the ship that it generally reached her before his prayer 
was finished. 
16th. This morning we were very near the island of 
Huahine; some canoes very soon came off, but appeared 
very much frightened; one, however, came to us bringing a 
chief and his wife, who on Tupia’s assurance of our friendship 
came on board. They resembled the Otahite people in 
language, dress, tattow, in short, in everything. Tupia has 
always said that the people of this island and Ulhietea will 
not steal, in which they indeed differ much from our late 
friends if they only keep up to their character. 
Soon after dinner we came to an anchor in a very small 
bay, called by the natives Owalle, and immediately went 
ashore. As soon as we landed Tupia squatted down on the 
ground, and ranging us on one side and the Indians on the 
other, began to pray to the chief who stood opposite to him, 
answering him in a kind of response; this lasted about a 
quarter of an hour, in which time he sent at different inter- 
vals two handkerchiefs and some beads he had prepared for 
the purpose for Hatua ; these were sent among many messages 
which passed backwards and forwards with plantains, etc. 
In return for this present to their gods, which it seems was 
very acceptable, we had a hog given for our Hatwa, which in 
this case will certainly be our stomachs. 
17th. We found the productions here almost exactly the 
same as at Otahite—upon the hills the rocks and slag were 
burnt if anything more than they were in thatisland. The 
people also were almost exactly like our late friends, but 
rather more stupid and lazy, in proof of which I need only 
say that we should have gone much higher up the hills than 
we did if we could have persuaded them to accompany us; 
their only excuse was the fear of being killed by the fatigue. 
Their houses are very neat, and their boat-houses particularly 
very large: one of these I measured was fifty good paces in 
length, ten in breadth, and twenty-four feet in height. 
