i8a AVOYAGETOTHE 



HAP. 

 IX. 



fbme refrefliment, returned to Wymoa. By this time 

 they had got every thing into the long-boat, and we took 

 januaVy. a paffagc in her on board. During my abfence they had 

 ^^ '^' purchafed a number of fine hogs, and great plenty of taro, 

 potatoes, &c. fo that we again begun to kill and fait pork 

 for fea-ftore. 



In the afternoon we caught a fhark, fo very large that 

 it was obliged to be hoifted out of the water with a tackle ;, 

 it meafured thirteen feet and a half in length, and eight feet 

 and a half in circumference, and the liver fix feet ; its 

 . mouth was fo large, that it admitted the head of a 

 puncheon with cafe. On the fhark being opened, there 

 were found forty-eight young ones in her, each about eight 

 inches long, two entire turtle weighing about fixty pounds 

 each, befides feveral fmall pigs, and a large quantity of 

 bones. The liver was kept for oil, and I gave the fiili to 

 the natives, who feemed to regard it as an inefiiimable 

 treafure, 



tiidayj. Taaao paid mc another vifit on the 5th, accompanied 



by his eldefl: fon, named Taaevee, a very fine boy about. 

 twelve years of age. The king told me that he intended* 

 this as a farewel vifit, as he intended to return to Apoonoo- 

 very fhortly, but that Abbenooe fhould remain on board 

 and accompany us down to Oneehow, which ifland and its 

 produce he preffed me very much, to accept of as a prefent, , 

 and defiled Abbenooe to take care that the natives fupplied, 

 us well with yams, without taking any thing in return ; 

 but I begged (if he would not permit them to fell the. 

 produce ol the illand) that they might be fufi'ered to re- 

 ceive fomething for their trouble in digging and bringing 



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