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A VOYAGE TO 
1777. cove where we landed, and where no one would ever have 
thought of looking for what we wanted. However, I be¬ 
lieve the water of this fpring might he good, were it pof- 
flble to take it up before the tide mixes with it. Finding 
that we did not like this, our friends took us a little way 
into the illand; where, in a deep chafm, we found very 
good water; which, at the expence of fome time and 
trouble, might be conveyed down to the Ihore, by means of 
fpouts or troughs, that could be made with plantain leaves, 
and the ftem of the tree. But, rather than to undertake 
that tedious talk, I refolved to reft contented with the fupply 
the fhips had got at Tongataboo. 
Before I returned on board, I fet on foot a trade for hogs 
and yams. Of the former, we could procure but few; but, 
of the latter, plenty. I put afhore, at this illand, the ram 
and two ewes, of the Cape of Good Hope breed of fheep; 
intruding them to the care of Taoofa, who feemed proud 
of his charge. It was fortunate, perhaps, that Mareewa- 
gee, to whom I had given them, as before-mentioned, 
flighted the prefent. Eooa, not having, as yet, got any dogs 
upon it, feems to be a properer place than Tongataboo for 
the rearing of fheep. 
As we lay at anchor, this illand bore a very different 
afpedi from any we had lately feen, and formed a rnoft 
beautiful landfcape. It is higher than any we had paffed, 
lince leaving New Zealand (as Kao may juftly be reckoned 
an immenfe rock), and from its top, which is almolt flat, 
declines very gently toward the fea. As the other ifles, of 
this duller, are level, the eye can difcover nothing but the 
trees that cover them ; but here the land, riling gently up¬ 
ward, prefents us with an extenlive profped, where groves 
of trees are only interfperfed at irregular diffances, in 
beautiful 
