A 
VOYAGE 
TO THE 
PACIFIC OCEAN, 
BOOK II. 
FROM LEAVING NEW ZEALAND TO OUR ARRIVAL AT 
OTAHEITE, OR THE SOCIETY ISLANDS. 
CHAP. I. 
Profecution of the Voyage.—Behaviour of the Two New Zea¬ 
landers on board.—Unfavourable Winds.—An If and called 
Mangeea difcovered.—The Goaf of it examined.—Tr ad¬ 
aptions with the Natives.—An Account of their Perfons , 
Drefs , and Canoe.—Defer iption of the If and.—A Specimen 
of the Language.—Difpoftion of the Inhabitants. 
O N the 25th, at ten o’clock in the morning, a light 1?77 . 
breeze fpringing up at North Weft by Weft, we 
weighed, ftood ont of the Sound, and made fail Tuefdayz S , 
through the ftrait, with the Difcovery in company. We had 
hardly got the length of Cape Teerawitte, when the wind 
took us aback at South Eaft. It continued in this quarter till 
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