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m?- as a very fmall one; whereas Vavaoo, according to the 
i — united teftimony of all our friends at Tongataboo, exceeds 
the fize of their own illand, and has high mountains. I 
fhould certainly have vilited it; and have accompanied Fee- 
nou from Hapaee, if he had not then difcouraged me, by 
reprefenting it to be very inconfiderable, and without any 
harbour. But Poulaho, the king, afterward affured me, that 
it was a large illand; and that it not only produced every 
thing in common with Tongataboo, but had the peculiar 
advantage of poffefling feveral breams of frefh water, with 
as good a harbour as that which we found at his capital 
illand. He offered to attend me, if I would vilit it; adding, 
that, if I did not find every thing agreeing with his repre- 
fentation, I might kill him, I had not the leaft doubt of 
the truth of his intelligence; and was fatisfied that Fee- 
nou, from fome interefted view, attempted to deceive 
me. 
Hamoa, which is alfo under the dominion of Tongataboo, 
lies two days fail North Weft from Vavaoo. It was defcribed 
to me, as the largeft of all their illands; as affording har¬ 
bours and good water; and as producing, in abundance, 
every article of refrelhment found at the places we vilited, 
Poulaho, himfelf, frequently refides there. It fhould feem, 
that the people of this illand are in high eftimation at Ton¬ 
gataboo; for we were told, that fome of the fongs and 
dances, with which we were entertained, had been copied 
from theirs ; and we law fome houfes, faid to be built after 
their fafhion. Mr. Anderfon, always inquifitive about fuch 
tain Cook, is, probably, Mr. Dalrymple’s, in his Collection of Voyages, where Tafman’s 
trail: is marked accurately 3 and feveral very fmall fpots of land are laid down in the fitua- 
tion here mentioned. 
matters, 
