A VOYAGE TO 
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1779. 
January. 
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Sunday 24. 
Monday 25. 
Tuefday 26. 
tt> fufpe< 5 t, that it was not the firft time we had been the 
dupes of the like impofition. 
Things continued in this ftate till the 24th, when we 
were a good deal furprized to find that no canoes were 
fuffered to put off from the fhore, and that the natives 
kept clofe to their houfes. After feveral hours fufpence, 
we learned that the bay was tabooed , and all intercourfe 
with us interdid/ted, on account of the arrival of Terreeoboo. 
As we had not forefeen an accident of this fort, the 
crews of both fhips were obliged to pafs the day without 
their ufual fupply of vegetables. The next morning, there¬ 
fore, they endeavoured, both by threats and promifes, to 
induce the natives to come along-fide ; and as fome of 
them were at laft venturing to put off, a chief was ob- 
ferved attempting to drive them away. A mufquet was 
immediately bred over his head, to make him defift, which 
had the defired effect, and refrefhments were foon after 
purchafed as ufual. In the afternoon, Terreeoboo arrived, 
and vifited the fhips in a private manner, attended only by 
one canoe, in which were his wife and children. He ftaid 
on board till near ten o’clock, when he returned to the vil¬ 
lage of Kowrowa. 
The next day, about noon, the king, in a large canoe, 
attended by two others, fet out from the village, and pad- 
died toward the fhips in great ftate. Their appearance was 
grand and magnificent. In the firft canoe was Terreeo¬ 
boo and his chiefs, dreffed in their rich feathered cloaks 
and helmets, and armed with long fpears and daggers ; in 
the fecond, came the venerable Kaoo, the chief of the 
priefts, and his brethren, with their idols difplayed on red 
cloth. Thefe idols were bufts of a gigantic fize, made of 
wicker-work, and curioufly covered with fmall feathers of 
various 
