THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
and by people from the neighbouring iflands, who came i 777 . 
off to trade with us, though the wind blew very frefh , ^ une ‘ 
moft of the time. The matter was now fent to found the 
channels between the iilands that lie to the Eaftward; and 
I landed on Kotoo, to examine it, in the forenoon of 
the 2d. Monday 2, 
This ifland is fcarcely acceflible by boats, on account of 
coral reefs that furround it. It is not more than a mile 
and half, or two miles, long; and not fo broad. The North 
Weft end of it is low, like the iflands of Hapaee; but it rifes 
fuddenly in the middle, and terminates in reddifh clayey 
clifts, at the South Eaft end, about thirty feet high. The 
foil, in that quarter, is of the fame fort as in the cliffs; but, 
in the other parts, it is a loofe, black mould. It produces 
the fame fruits and roots which we found at the other 
iflands ; is tolerably cultivated, but thinly inhabited. While 
I was walking all over it, our people were employed in 
cutting fome grafs for the cattle; and w T e planted fome me¬ 
lon feeds, with which the natives feemed much pleafed, and 
inclofed them with branches. On our return to the boat, 
we paffed by two or three ponds of dirty water, which was 
more or lefs brackifh in each of them; and faw one of their 
burying-places, which was much neater than thofe that 
were met with at Hapaee. 
On the 4th, at feven in the morning, we weighed; and, wednef. 4. 
with a frefh gale at Eaft South Eaft, flood away for Anna- 
mooka, where we anchored, next morning, nearly in the Thurfday 5 
fame ftation which we had fo lately occupied. 
I went on fhore foon after, and found the inhabitants 
very bufy in their plantations, digging up yams to bring to 
market; and, in the courfe of the day, about two hundred 
of them had affembled on the beach, and traded with as 
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