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CHAPTER X. 
Departure from Otaheite — Arrival at Woahoo, Sandwich Islands — Contrast between the two 
Countries— Visit the King and Pitt — Departure — Oneehow— Passage to Kamschatka— 
Petrapaulski— Beering’s Island — St. Lawrence Island — Esquimaux — King’s Island — 
Diomede Islands — Pass Beering’s Strait — Arrive in Kotzebue Sound — Anchor off 
Chamisso Island — Ice Formation in Escholtz Bay. 
On the 26th of April, we left this delightful island, in which CHAP. 
We had passed many very pleasant days, in the enjoyment of the 
society of the residents, and of the scenery of the country. We put April, 
to sea in the morning, and about noon reached the low Island of 
Tethoroa, the watering place of the Otaheitans. It is a small coral 
island, distant about seven leagues from Otaheite ; from the hills of 
which it may be distinctly seen, and is abundantly provided with cocoa- 
nut trees. The salubrity of this little island, which was formerly the 
resort of the chiefs, arreoys, and others, for the purpose of recruiting 
their health after their debaucheries, is still proverbial at Otaheite. 
Spare diet and fresh air were the necessary consequences of a visit 
to this place, and for a good constitution were the only restoratives 
required; and, as these seldom failed in their effects, it obtained a 
reputation in Otaheite, no less famous than that of the island said to 
contain the celebrated spring of eternal youth, which Ponce de Leon so 
long sought in vain. The island of Tethoroa, the village of Toanoa, 
^nd the peak with a hole through it, on Eimeo, were in sight together ; 
‘ind we were thus enabled to connect them trigonometrically. A curious 
history is attached to this hole in the mountain, connected with the 
superstition of early times. The great god, Oroo, being one day angry 
'vith the Tii, or the little god of Eimeo, he threw his spear across the 
