A VOYAGE TO 
1778. pieces of iron hoops; and I diftributed a good many pieces 
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j _ ‘ . of ribbon, and fome buttons, as bracelets, amongft the wo¬ 
men in the canoes. One of the men had the figure of a 
lizard pundtured upon his bread;, and upon thofe of others 
were the figures of men badly imitated. Thefe vifiters in¬ 
formed us, that there was no Chief, or Hairee , of this illand; 
but that it was fubjeft to Teneooneoo, a Chief of Atooi; 
which illand, they faid, was not governed by a fingle Chief, 
but that there were many to whom they paid the honour 
of moe , or profixation; and, amongft others, they named 
Otaeaio and Terarotoa. Among other things, which thefe 
people now brought off, w'as a fmall drum, almoft like 
thofe of Otaheite. 
About ten or eleven o’clock at night, the wind veered to 
the South, and the fky feemed to forebode a ftorm. With 
fuch appearances, thinking that we were rather too near 
the fhore, I ordered the anchors to be taken up, and, hav¬ 
ing carried the fliips into forty-two fathoms, came to again 
in that fafer ftation. The precaution, however, proved to 
be unneceftary; for the wind, foon after, veered to North 
North Eaft, from which quarter it blew a frefh gale, with 
fqualls, attended with very heavy fhowers of rain. 
Saturday 3 x. This weather continued all the next day; and the fea 
ran fo high, that we had no manner of communication 
with our party on fhore; and even the natives themfelves 
durft not venture out to the fliips in their canoes. In the 
evening, I fent the Mafter in a boat up to the South Eaft 
head, or point of the iftand, to try if he could land under 
it. He returned with a favourable report; but it was too 
late, now, to fend for our party till the next morning; 
and thus they had another night to improve their inter- 
courfe with the natives. 
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