THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
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cording to his information, there are two iflands near each r 77 
other, which he himfelf had been at. The one he defcribed , -* ul 
as high, and peaked like Kao, and he called it Kootahee; 
the other, where the people of the fhip landed, called 
Neeootabootaboo, he reprefented as much lower. He add¬ 
ed, that the natives of both are the fame fort of people 
with thofe of Tongataboo ; built their canoes ill the fame 
manner; that their iflands had hogs and fowls ; and, in ge¬ 
neral, the fame vegetable productions. The fhip, fo point¬ 
edly referred to in this converfation, could be no other 
than the Dolphin; the only tingle fhip from Europe, as 
far as we have ever learned, that had touched, of late 
years, at any ifland in this part of the Pacific Ocean, prior 
to my former vifit of the Friendly I Hands. *. 
But the molt confiderable iflands in this neighbourhood, 
that we now heard of (and we heard a great deal about 
them), are Hamoa, Vavaoo, and Feejee. Each of thefe was 
reprefented to us as larger than Tongataboo. No European, 
that we know of, has, as yet, feen any one of them. Taf- 
man, indeed, lays down in his chart, an ifland nearly in 
the lituation where I fuppofe Vavaoo to be; that is, about 
the latitude of 19 0 f. But, then, that ifland is there marked 
as 
* See Captain Wallis’s Voyage, in Hawkefworth’s Colle&ion, Vol. i. p. 492—494. 
Captain Wallis there calls both thefe iflands high ones. But the fuperior height of one of 
them may be inferred, from his faying, that it appears like a fugar-loaf. This ftrongly 
marks its refemblance to Kao. From comparing Poulaho’s intelligence to Captain 
Cook, with Captain Wallis’s account, it feems to be paft all doubt, that Bofcawen’s 
Ifland is our Kootahee, and Keppel’s Ifland our Neeootabootaboo. The lafl is one of 
the large iflands marked in the foregoing lift. The reader, who has been already apprized 
of the variations of our people in writing down what the natives pronounced, will hardly 
doubt that Kottejeea and Kootahee are the. fame. 
t Neither Dalrymple nor Campbell, in their accounts of Tafman’s voyage, take any 
particular notice of his having feen fuch an ifland. The chart here referred to, by Cap- 
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