THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
and taken it along with him, proceeded to Kowrowa, and 
landed with the Lieutenant and nine marines. He imme¬ 
diately marched into the village, where he was received with 
the ufual marks of refpecft; the people proftrating them- 
felves before him, and bringing their accuftomed offerings 
of fmall hogs. Finding that there was no fufpicion of his 
delign, his next ftep was, to enquire for Terreeoboo, and 
the two boys, his fons, who had been his conftant guefts 
on board the Refolution. In a fhort time, the boys returned 
along with the natives, who had been fent in fearch of 
them, and immediately led Captain Cook to the houfe 
where the king had flept. They found the old man juft 
awoke from deep; and, after a fhort converfation about the 
lofs of the cutter, from which Captain Cook was convinced 
that he was in no wife privy to it, he invited him to return 
in the boat, and fpend the day on board the Refolution. 
To this propofal the king readily confented, and imme¬ 
diately got up to accompany him. 
Things were in this profperous train, the two boys being 
already in the pinnace, and the reft of the party having ad¬ 
vanced near the water-fide, when an elderly woman called 
Kanee-kabareea, the mother of the boys, and one of the 
king’s favourite wives, came after him, and with many 
tears, and entreaties, befought him not to go on board. At 
the fame time, two Chiefs, who came along with her, laid 
hold of him, and, infilling that he fliould go no farther, 
forced him to lit down. The natives, who were collecting 
in prodigious numbers along the fhore, and had probably 
been alarmed by the firing of the great guns, and the ap¬ 
pearances of hoftility in the bay, began to throng round 
Captain Cook and their king. In this fituation, the Lieu¬ 
tenant of marines, obferving that his men were huddled 
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