THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
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CHAP. VIII. 
Arrival at Bolabola.—Interview with Opoony.—Reafons for 
pur chafing Monfeur de Bougainville's Anchor.—Departure 
from the Society Ifands.—Particulars about Bolabola .— 
Hiftory of the Conquef of Otaha and Ulietea.—High Repu¬ 
tation of the Bolabola Men.—Animals left there , and at 
XJUetea.—Plentiful Supply of Provifons , and Manner of 
falling Pork on board.—Various Reflections relative to 
Otaheite , and the Society Iflands.—Aflronomical and nau¬ 
tical Obfervations made there. 
A S foon as we had got clear of the harbour, we took , 777 . 
our leave of Ulietea, and fteered for Bolabola. The , Decem ^ er ; 
chief if not foie objerifl had in view, by viliting that illand, 
was, to procure from its monarch, Opoony, one of the an¬ 
chors which Monfieur de Bougainville had loft at Otaheite. 
This having afterward been taken up by the natives there, 
had, as they informed me, been fent by them as a prefent 
to that Chief. My deftre to get pofleflion of it did not arife 
from our being in want of anchors. But having expended 
all the hatchets, and other iron tools, which we had brought 
from England, in purchaling refrefhments, we were now 
reduced to the neceflity of creating a frefh aflortment of 
trading articles, by fabricating them out of the fpare iron 
we had on board; and, in fuch conventions, and in the oc~ 
cailonal 
