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1777. whom I had feen at Tongataboo, during my lalt voyage; 
t May '_. a nd who was then fuppofed by us to be the King of that 
illand. He fat in the canoe, with all that gravity, by which, 
as I have mentioned in my Journal % he was fo remarka¬ 
bly diftinguifhed at that time; nor could I, by any intrea¬ 
ties, prevail upon him now to come into the Ihip. Many 
of the iilanders were prefent; and they all called him 
Areekee , which lignifies King. I had never heard any one 
of them give this title to Feenou, however extenhve his au¬ 
thority over them, both here, and at Annamooka, had ap¬ 
peared to be; which had, all along, inclined me to fufpedt, 
that he was not the King; though his friend Taipa had 
taken pains to make me believe he was. Latooliboula re¬ 
mained under the hern till the evening, when he retired in 
his canoe to one of the iilands. Feenou was on board my 
Ihip at the lame time ; but neither of thefe great men took 
the leaft notice of the other. 
Thurf% 22. Nothing material happened the next day, except that 
fome of the natives Hole a tarpaulin, and other things, 
* See Captain Cook’s Voyage , Vol. i. p. 206, 207. The name of this extraordinary 
perfonage is there laid to be Kohagee too Fallangou \ which cannot, by the moft fkilful 
etymologift, be tortured into the leaft moft diftant refemblance of Latooliboula It is 
remarkable, that Captain Cook fhould not take any notice of his having called the fame 
perfon by two names fo very different. Perhaps we may account for this by fuppofing one 
to be the name of the perfon, and the other the defcription of his title or rank. This 
fuppofftion feems well founded, when we confider, that Latoo y in the language of thefe- 
people, is fometimes ufed to ftgnify a Great Chief; and Dr. Forfter, in his Obfervations, 
p. 378, 379. and elfewhere, fpeaks of the fovereign of Tongataboo, under the title of 
their La too. This very perfon is called, by Dr. Forfter, p. 370. Latoo-Nipooroo ; which 
furnifhes a very ftriking inftance of tire variations of our people in writing down the fame 
word as pronounced by the natives. However, we can eafily trace the affinity between 
Nipooroo and Ltboula , as the changes of the confonants are fuch as are perpetually made, 
upon hearing a word pronounced, to which our ears have not been accuftomed. Mr. 
Anderfon here agrees with Captain Cook in writing Latooliboula. 
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