A VOYAGE TO 
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1777- few other natives, that were in the fhip, left us. On 
_» heaving up the anchor, we found, that the cable had 
fuffered confiderably by the rocks ; fo that the bottom, in 
this road, is not to be depended upon. Belides this, we ex¬ 
perienced, that a prodigious fwell rolls in there from the 
South Weft. 
We had not been long under fail, before we obferved 
a failing canoe coming from Tongataboo, and entering 
the creek before which we had anchored. Some hours 
after, a fmall canoe, conducted by four men, came off to 
us. For, as we had but little wind, we were, ftill, at no 
great diftance from the land. Thele men told us, that 
the failing canoe, which we had feen arrive from Ton¬ 
gataboo, had brought orders to the people of Eooa, to 
furnifti us with a certain number of hogs; and that, in 
two days, the king, and other Chiefs, would be with us. 
They, therefore, defired we would return to our former 
ftation. There was no reafon to doubt the truth of what 
thefe men told us. Two of them had actually come from 
Tongataboo, in the failing canoe; and they had no view 
in coming off to us, but to give this intelligence. How¬ 
ever, as w r e were now clear of the land, it was not a 
Sufficient inducement to bring me back; efpecially as we 
had, already, on board, a ftock of frefh provifions, fuf- 
ficient, in all probability, to laft during our paffage to 
Otaheite. Befides Taoofa’s prefent, we had got a good 
■quantity of yams at Eooa, in exchange chiefly for fmall 
nails. Our Supply of hogs was alfo confiderably increafed 
there ; though, doubtlefs, we fhould have got many more, 
if the Chiefs of Tongataboo had been with us, whofe pro¬ 
perty they moftly were. At the approach of night, thefe 
men, finding that we would not return, left us; as alfo 
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