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A VOYAGE TO 
1779. people lie employed could not be prevailed on to accept 
^ ^ januaiy^ the fmalleft prefent. After remaining out fix days, our 
Officers returned, without having been able to penetrate 
above twenty miles into the ifland; partly from want of 
proper guides, and partly from the impracticability of the 
country. 
Wednef. 27. The head of the Refolution’s rudder being found ex¬ 
ceedingly fhaken, and moft of the pintles either loofe or 
broken, it was unhung, and fent on fliore, on the 27th 
in the morning, to undergo a thorough repair. At the 
fame time the carpenters were fent into the country, un¬ 
der conduCt of fome of Kaoo’s people, to cut planks for 
the head rail work, which was alfo entirely decayed and 
rotten. 
Thurfday 28. On the 28th, Captain Clerke, whofe ill health confined 
him, for the moft part, on board, paid Terreeoboo his firft 
vifit, at his hut on fliore. He was received with the fame 
formalities as were obferved with Captain Cook; and, on 
his coming away, though the vifit was quite unexpected, 
he received a prefent of thirty large hogs, and as much 
fruit and roots as his crew could confume in a week. 
As we had not yet feen any thing of their fports or ath¬ 
letic exercifes, the natives, at the requeft of fome of our 
Officers, entertained us this evening with a boxing-match. 
Though thefe games were much inferior, as well in point 
of folemnity and magnificence, as in the fkill and powers 
of the combatants, to what we had feen exhibited at the 
Friendly Illands; yet, as they differed in fome particulars, it 
may not be improper to give a fhort account of them. We 
found a vaft concourfe of people affembled on a level fpot 
of ground, at a little diftance from our tents. A long fpace 
was left vacant in the midft of them, at the upper end of 
which 
