Co AVOYAGETOTHE 



CHAP. IV. 



J^ange along the Coajl of Owhyhee.— Arrival in Karaka- 

 kooa Bay. — Uiiriily Behaviour of the Natives. — Leave 

 Karakakooa Bay. — Refrejhments procured along the 

 Coaft. — Difappointed in comi7ig to anchor at Morotoi. — 

 Arrive at JVoahoo. — Fruitlefs Search for a Watering- 

 place. — Supplied with Water by the Natives. — Refrejh- 

 ments obtained. — Departure frofn Woahoo. — Account of 

 the prefent Gover7i7ne?it a?nongfi the Sandwich IJlands. 

 — Pafs Atoui. — Arrival at Oneehow. — TranfaBions 

 there. 



c HA P. rr^HE Indians traded with cheerfulnefs, and did not 



t— — >^ ' -■" fliew any difpolitien to adt difhoneftly : after dif- 



M.y.' pofing of every thing they had got to fell, and viewing 



wednef.24- ^]^g {jjjp ^\\ j-Qund, they returned to the fhore perfeftly 

 well pleafed. As Karakakooa Bay was the only harbour 

 we knew of at Owhyhee, I determined to make it as foon 



Thurrday25. ^g poffible ; and at eleven o'clock in the forenoon of the 

 '25th we paffed the South point; but foon afterwards the 

 wind grew variable, and frequently blew in fqualls. 



During the afternoon we flood to the Northward along 

 the Weft {ide of the ifland ; and being well in with the 

 land, a number of canoes came off, bringing hogs and 

 other refrefhments, which we chiefly purchafed with fmall 

 pieces of iron. I had conceived hopes that we fhould 



have 



