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1777. take her out of the drip, to convey her to a place of fiafety, 
where dre might lie concealed, till they drould have an op¬ 
portunity of fending her back to Huaheine. 
Thurfday 27. On the 27th, our obfervatories were taken down, and 
every thing we had aihore carried on board; the moorings 
of the drips were call off; and we tranfported them a little 
way down the harbour, where they came to an anchor 
again. Toward the afternoon, the natives began to drake 
off their fears, gathering round, and on board, the drips, 
as ufual; and the awkward tranfaclion of the day before 
feemed to be forgotten on both ddes. 
Friday 22. The following night the wind blew in hard fqualls from 
South to Eaft, attended with heavy fhowers of rain. In 
one of the fqualls, the cable, by which the Refolution was 
riding, parted, juft without the hawfe. We had another 
anchor ready to let go; fo that the drip was, prefently, 
brought up again. In the afternoon the wind became 
moderate ; and we hooked the end of the beft fmall bower 
cable, and got it again into the hawfe. 
Oreo, the Chief, being uneafy, as well as myfelf, that 
no account had been received from Bolabola, fet out, this 
evening, for that idand, and dedred me to follow down, 
the next day, with the drips. This was my intention ; but 
the wind would not admit of our getting to fea. But 
the fame wind which kept us in the harbour, brought 
Oreo back from Bolabola, with the two deferters. They 
had reached Otaha the fame night they deferted; but, 
finding it impodible to get to any of the idands to the Eaft- 
ward (which was their intention), for want of wind, they 
had proceeded to Bolabola, and from thence to the fmall 
idand Toobaee, where they were taken by the father of 
Pootoe, in confequence of the firft meffage fent to Opoony. 
As 
