3o8 A VOYAGE TO THE 



c H ^ P. manned by Englifhmen. He faid nothing of their fucceb 



1787. 



Oaober. 



or intentions. 



Sunday 7. IMMEDIATELY on thc receipt of this letter I began to 



heave fhort. About half paft nine we were under way. 

 We lay-to until near noon ; when, having finifhed a letter 

 for captain Colnett, or Duncan, or any other commander 

 belonging to the King George's Sound company, and de- 

 livered it to the care of my old friend Abbenooe, we made 

 ifail from the ifland at noon, and fleered to the Weft 

 by South, intending, after getting clear of Taahoora, and 

 the fhoal (called by the Indians Modoo-papapa, which 

 I never faw, but judge from the information I have re- 

 ceived from different Indians, to lie about Weft South 

 Weft from Tahoora at a little diftance), to haul to 

 the Southward as far as 14° or 13" 30' North, as the fafeft 

 track, until we got the length of the Ladrones. 



On quitting our friends thereabouts, I muft do theai 

 the juftiee to fay we have ever found them friendly and 

 ufeful. A man of fome note, named Ta-boo-a-raa-nee, 

 belonging to Owhyhee, took his paffage with us to this 

 place, and was received by the king and principal men 

 with much fatisfaclion. I faw a very ftriking likenefs be- 

 tween him and Ka-nee-na, who was killed at the time 

 captain Cook fell, and who was always a moft friendly 

 chief. I inquired if he knew Ka-nec-na ; at which he 

 feemed furprifed, and hefitated for fome time, feemingly 

 confidering what anfwer he fl:tould make me ; at laft he 

 informed me that he was his own brother ; of which I 

 had little doubt, from the great refemblance of their fea- 

 13 . tures. 



