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c HA p. ^Qj^g daggers to be made after the model of the Indian 



^— ^'- — ' Pahooas ; and this pradice was afterwards followed by 



June! every perfon who could raife iron enough to make one ; 



Monday 5. ^^ ^-^^^ during our ftay at thefe iflands, the armourer was 

 employed to little other purpofe than in working thefe de- 

 ftrudlive weapons ; and fo liberally were they difpofed of, 

 that the morning we were running into Karakakooa b-^y, 

 after the RefoLution had fprung her foremaft, I faw Maiha 

 Maiha get eight or nine daggers from captain Clarke, in 

 exchange for a feathered cloak ; though fince our ar- 

 rival at Woahoo, I have purchafed fome cloaks consider- 

 ably better than that of captain Clarke's, for a fmall piece 

 of iron worked into the form of a carpenter's plane-bit : 

 thefe the Sandwich iflanders make ufe of as adzes, and 

 call them towees ; and to them they anfwer every purpofe 

 v/here.ver an edge-tool is required. 



Since the year 1778, at which time the Sandwich 

 Iflands were difcovered, there appears to have been an 

 almoft total change in their government : from every 

 thing I now have been able to learn, Taheeterre, the 

 prefent king of Woahoo, is the only furviving monarch 

 we left amongft the iflands at that period ; he then 

 was king of Morotoi only ; and Pereeoranne, who then 

 governed Woahoo, was at war with him, and had fent 

 a number of fighting canoes to attack his dominions. 

 It feems that Pereeoranne's forces were worfted on this 

 occafion ; for prefently afterwards, Taheeterre took pof- 

 itffion of Woahoo ; and, flufhed with this fuccefs, he 

 attacked and conquered the ifland of Mowee ; which, as 

 already has been obferved, is now annexed to his domi- 

 nions,. Tereeoboo, who at that time was king of Owhy- 

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