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A VOYAGE TO 
CHAP. VII. 
1777- 
November. 
Arrival at Ulietea.—AJlronomical Obfervations.—A Marine 
deferts , and is delivered up.—Intelligence from Omai. — In- 
flru&ions to Captain Clerke.—Another Defertion of a Mid- 
Jhipman and a Seaman.—"Three of the chief Perfons of the 
Ifland corifned on that Account.—A Defign to feize Cap¬ 
tains Cook and Clerke , difcovered.—The two Deferters 
brought back , and the Pr if oners releafed.—The Ships fail. 
*—RefreJhments received at Ulietea.—Prefent and former 
State op that Ifland.—Account of its dethroned King , and 
of the late Regent of Huabeine . 
HE boat which, carried Omai afhore, never to join 
X us again, having returned to the fhip, with the re¬ 
mainder of the hawfer, we hoifled her in, and imme¬ 
diately flood over for Ulietea, where I intended to touch 
next. At ten o’clock at night, we brought to, till four the 
next morning, when we made fail round the South end of 
the ifland, for the harbour of Ohamaneno *. We met 
with calms and light airs of wind, from different direc¬ 
tions, by turns ; fo that, at noon, we were flill a league 
from the entrance of the harbour. While we were thus 
detained, my old friend Oreo, Chief of the ifland, with 
his fon, and Pootoe, his fon-in-law, came off to vifit us. 
* See a plan of this harbour, in Hawkefworth’s Coile&ion, Vol. ii. p. 248. 
Being 
*777* 
November. 
