THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
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to laft till our arrival at another flation, where we could 
depend upon a frefh fupply. I was not forry, befides, to 
have had an opportunity of bettering the condition of thefe 
good people, by leaving the ufeful animals, before-men¬ 
tioned, among them; and, at the fame time, thofe defigned 
for Otaheite, received frefh ftrength in the paflures of Ton- 
gataboo. Upon the whole, therefore, the advantages we 
received, by touching here, were very great; and I had the 
additional fatisfadtion to reflect, that they were received, 
without retarding, one moment, the profecution of the 
great objedt of our voyage; the feafon, for proceeding to the 
North, being, as has been already obferved, loft, before I 
took the refolution of bearing away for thefe illands. 
But, befides the immediate advantages, which both the 
natives of the Friendly Illands, and ourfelves, received by 
this vilit, future navigators from Europe, if any fuch fhould 
ever tread our fteps, will profit by the knowledge I acquired 
of the geography of this part of the Pacific Ocean; and the 
more philofophieal reader, who loves to view human nature 
in new fituations, and to fpeculate on lingular, but faithful 
reprefentations of the perfons, the cuftoms, the arts, the 
religion, the government, and the language of uncultivated 
man, in remote and frefh difcovered quarters of the globe, 
will, perhaps, find matter of amufement, if not of inftruc- 
tion, in the information which I have been enabled to con¬ 
vey to him, concerning the inhabitants of this Archipelago, 
I lhall fufpend my narrative, of the progrefs of the voyage, 
while I faithfully relate what I had opportunities of colledl- 
ing on thefe feveral topics. 
We found, by our experience, that the bell articles for 
traffic, at thefe illands, are iron tools in general. Axes and 
hatchets; nails, from the largefl fpike down to tenpenny 
ones; 
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