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direct track to Hapaee, whither we were now bound, the 1777." 
fea is fprinkled with a great number of fmall ifles. Amidft Ma} ' 
the fhoals and rocks adjoining to this group, I could not be 
affured that there was a free or fafe paffage for fuch large 
fhips as ours; though the natives failed through the in¬ 
tervals in their canoes. For this fubftantial reafon, when 
we weighed anchor from Annamooka, I thought it ne- 
ceffary to go to the Weftward of the above iilands, and 
fleered North North Weft, toward Kao * and Toofoa, the 
two rnoft Wefterly iflands in ftght, and remarkable for 
their great height. Feenou, and his attendants, remained 
on hoard the Refolution till near noon, when he went into 
the large failing canoe, which had brought him from Ton- 
gataboo, and flood in amongft the clufter of iilands above 
mentioned, of which we were now almoft abreaft; and a 
tide or current from the Weftward had fet us, ftnce our 
failing in the morning, much over toward them.. 
They lie fcattered, at unequal diftances, and are, in ge¬ 
neral, nearly as high as Annamooka; but only from two 
or three miles, to half a mile in length, and fome of them 
fcarcely fo much. They have either fteep rocky fhores 
like Annamooka, or reddifh cliffs; but fome have fandy 
beaches extending almoft their whole length. Moft of 
* As a proof of the great difficulty of knowing accurately, the exact names of the 
South Sea Iflands, as procured from the natives, I obferve that what Captain Cook calls 
Aghao , Mr. Anderfon calls Kao ; and Tafman’s drawing, as I find it in Mr. Dalrymple’s 
Collection of Voyages, gives the name of Kaybay to the fame ifland. Tafman’s and' 
Captain Cook’s Amattafoa , is, with Mr. Anderfon, Tcfoa. Captain Cook's Komango , is 
Tafman’s Amango. There is fcarcely an inftance, in which fuch variations are not ob~ 
fervable. Mr. Anderfon’s great attention to matters of this fort being,, as we learn 
from Captain King, well known to every body on board, and admitted always by Captain 
Cook himfelf, his mode of fpelling has been adopted on the engraved chart of the Friendly 
Iilands $ which has made it necefiary to adopt it alfo, in printing the journal. 
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