A VOYAGE TO 
1777. them are entirely clothed with trees, amongft which are 
M T many cocoa palms, and each forms a profpedt like a beau¬ 
tiful garden placed in the fea. To heighten this, the ferene 
weather we now had, contributed very much; and the 
whole might fupply the imagination with an idea of fome 
fairy land realized. It fhould feem, that fome of them, 
at leaft, may have been formed, as we fuppofed Palmer- 
lion’s Iiland to have been; for there is one, which, as yet, 
- is entirely land, and another, on which there is only one 
bulli, or tree. 
At four o’clock in the afternoon being the length of 
Kotoo, the Welle rnmoft of the above duller of fmall 
illands, we fleered to the North, leaving Toofoa and Kao 
on our larboard, keeping along the Welt fide of a reef of 
rocks, which lie to the Well ward of Kotoo, till we came to 
their Northern extremity, round which we hauled in for 
the iiland. It was our intention to have anchored for the 
night; but it came upon us before we could find a place in 
iefs than fifty-five fathoms water; and rather than come to 
in this depth, I chofe to fpend the night under fail. 
We had, in the afternoon, been within two leagues of 
Toofoa, the fmoke of which we faw feveral times in the day. 
The Friendly Illanders have fome fuperilitious notions about 
the volcano upon it, which they call Kollofeea , and fay it is 
an Otooa , or divinity. According to their account, it fome- 
times throws up very large Hones; and they compare the 
crater , to the fize of a fmall illot, which has never ceafed 
fmoking in their memory; nor have they any tradition that 
it ever did. We fometimes faw the fmoke riling from the 
centre of the iiland, while we were at Annamooka, though 
at the diftance of at leaft ten leagues. Toofoa, we were told, 
is but thinly inhabited, but the water upon it is good. 
At 
