54 
A ¥ OYAGE TO 
1779' 
February, 
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after receiving a blow on the head from a Hone, which had 
nearly lent him to the bottom, he caught the man by the 
hair, and brought him fafe off A 
Our people continued for fome time to keep up a conftant 
fire from the boats (which, during the whole tranfa&ion, 
were not more than twenty yards from the land), in order 
to afford their unfortunate companions, if any of them 
Ihould Hill remain alive, an opportunity of efcaping. Thefe 
efforts, feconded by a few guns, that were fired at the fame 
time, from the Refolution, having forced the natives at laft 
to retire, a fmall boat, manned by five of our young mid- 
fhipmen, pulled toward the fhore, where they faw the bo¬ 
dies, without any figns of life, lying on the ground ; but 
judging it dangerous to attempt to bring them off, with fo 
fmall a force, and their ammunition being nearly expended, 
they returned to the fhips, leaving them in poffeliion of the 
inlanders, together with ten Hands of arms. 
As foon as the general confternation, which the news of 
this calamity occafioned throughout both crews, had a little 
fubfided, their attention was called to our party at the Moral , 
* From the annexed plate, the reader will be enabled to form a very clear and diflincl 
idea of the fituation of the feveral places mentioned in this and the three laft chapters. 
On the fartheft point of land, beyond the fhips, to the left, is fituated the village of Kow- 
rowa, where Captain Cook was killed. The pile of ftones, with a building on the top, 
at the other extremity of the plate, reprefents the Morai, where the obfervatories were 
eredted. Behind the grove of cocoa-nut trees, flood the cloifters of the priefts. To 
the left of thefe, is part of the village of Kakooa, which was burnt down on the 17 th of 
February; and, farther on, amongft the rocks, at the end of the beach, is the well where 
we watered. The fteep high ground, above the beach, is the hill from which the natives 
.annoyed the waterers, by rolling down ftones. 
In the fore ground, a native is fwimming on one of the boards, as dcfcribed in the fe- 
venth chapter. The canoes, and the general air of the people, are reprefented with the 
greateft truth and fidelity. 
where 
