THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
fet up, and the mount raifed, by fome of their forefathers, 1777. 
in memory of one of their kings; but how long fince, they Ma> ' , 
could not tell. 
Night coming on, Mr. Gore and I returned on board; 
and, at the fame time, Mr. Bligh got back from founding 
the hay, in which he found from fourteen to twenty fa¬ 
thoms water; the bottom, for the moll part, fand, but not 
without fome coral rocks. The place where we now an¬ 
chored is much better flickered than that which we had 
lately come from; but between the two is another anchor¬ 
ing llation, much better than either. Lefooga and Hoolaiva. 
are divided from each other by a reef of coral rocks, which 
is dry at low water; fo that one may walk, at that time,, 
from the one to the other, without wetting a foot. Some 
of our Gentlemen, who landed in the latter ifland, did not 
find the leaf!: mark of cultivation, or habitation, upon it; 
except a fingle hut, the refidence of a man employed to 
catch filh and turtle. It is rather extraordinary, that it 
fliould be in this deferted Hate, communicating fo immedi¬ 
ately with Lefooga, which is fo perfectly cultivated ; for, 
though the foil is quite fandy, all the trees and plants found,, 
in a natural Hate, on the neighbouring iflands, are pro¬ 
duced here with the great eft vigour. The Eaft fide of it 
has a reef like Lefooga; and the Weft fide has a bending, 
at the North part, where there feerns to be good anchorage. 
Uninhabited as Hoolaiva is, an artificial mount, like that 
at the adjoining ifland, has been raifed upon it, as high as 
fome of the furrounding trees. 
At day-break, next morning, I made the fignal to weigh; Tuefday 27. 
and, as I intended to attempt a paffage to Annamooka, 
in my way to Tongataboo, by the South Weft, amongft 
the intervening iflands, I fient the Mailer in a boat to 
1 found 
