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17 77 - wo Should have been plentifully Supplied with provifions; 
S LLC ™ and, I think, the natives would feel themfelves disappoint¬ 
ed, when they found that we were gone. But, as we had 
already a very good Stock both of hogs and of fruit on board, 
and very little of any thing left to purchafe more, I could 
have no inducement to defer, any longer, the profecution 
of our voyage. 
The harbour of Bolabola, called Oteavanooa, Situated on 
the Weft fide of the ifiand, is one of the moft capacious that 
I ever met with; and though we did not enter it, it was a 
latisfadtion to me, that I had an opportunity of employing 
my people to afcertain its being a very proper place for the 
reception of Ships *. 
The high double-peaked mountain, which is in the 
middle of the ifiand, appeared to be barren on the Eaft 
fide; but, on the Weft fide, has trees or bullies on its moft 
craggy parts. The lower grounds, all round, toward the 
fea, are covered with cocoa-palms and bread-fruit trees, like 
the other illands of this ocean; and the many little illots 
that Surround it on the infide of the reef, add both to the 
amount of its vegetable productions, and to the number of 
its inhabitants. 
But, Still, when we confider its very Small extent, being 
not more than eight leagues in compaSs, it is rather re¬ 
markable, that its people lliould have attempted, or have 
been able to atchieve the conqueft of Ulietea and Otaha, the; 
former of which illands is, of itfelf, at leaft double its fize* 
In each of my three voyages, we had heard much of the 
war that produced this great revolution. The refult of our 
* See a chart of the ifiand of Bolabola, in Hawkefworth'’s Colleflion y Vol. ii. p. 249.. 
Though we have no particular drawing of the harbour, its fituation is there diftinddy re- 
prefented. 
inquiries. 
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