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formation from our viliters ; yet their venturing on board 
teemed' to imply, at leaft, that their countrymen on fhore 
had not made an improper ufe of the confidence put in 
them. At length, a little before fun-fet, we had the fatisfac- 
tion of feeing the boats put off. When they got on board, 
I found that Mr. Gore himfelf, Omai, Mr.. Anderfon, and 
Mr. Burney, were the only perfons who had landed. The 
tranfadfions of the day w r ere now fully reported to me by 
Mr. Gore ; but Mr. Anderfon’s account of them being very 
particular, and including fome remarks on the ifland and 
its inhabitants, I fliall give it a place here, nearly in his own 
words. 
u We rowed toward a fmall fandy beach, upon which, 
and upon the adjacent rocks, a great number of the natives 
had affembled; and came to an anchor within a hundred 
yards of the reef, which extends about as far, or a little 
farther, from the fhore. Several of the natives fwam off, 
bringing cocoa nuts ; and Omai, with their countrymen, 
whom we had with us in the boats, made them fenfible of 
our wifh to land. But their attention was taken up, for a 
little time, by the dog, which had been carried from the 
fhip, and was juft brought on fhore, round whom they 
flocked with great eagernefs. Soon after, two canoes came 
off; and, to create a greater confidence in the iflanders, we 
determined to go unarmed, and run the hazard of being 
treated well or ill. 
Mr. Burney, the fir.fr. Lieutenant of the Difcovery, and 
I, went in one canoe, a little time before the other ; and our 
conductors, watching attentively the motions of the furf, 
landed us fafely upon the reef. An illander took hold of 
each of us, ohvioufly with an intention to fupport us in 
walking, over the rugged rocks, to the beach, where feveral 
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