created on shore, in the evening of August 30th, by some seamen and marines; when alarm was spread among the inhabitants, and the timorous King fled several miles from his house; but the offenders were taken and punished, and the King was brought back.
On tuesday the 31st, the Captains and their friends paid him a final visit, when he received from Capt. Cook three Cape wethers. Capt. Furneaux had previously given him a pair of goats, male and female. He now sent for three hogs, as presents to the Captains and Mr. Forster; and one of the three being noticed as small, it was exchanged for a larger. Otoo embraced Capt. Cook several times at parting, and seemed much moved. A few more hogs were obtained from Potatow, a friendly chief, and from Oamo. On visiting the latter, Lieut. Pickersgill saw his wife Oberea, once venerated as Queen of the island, but now grown old, poor, and of little consequence.
When the ships were about to sail, a young man named Poreo offered to go in the Resolution; but after he had got an axe and a spike nail for his pretended father, another person came to demand him. The Captain perceiving that a trick had been played, kept him on board. A Spanish ship, which had visited Otaheite three months before the arrival of the Resolution and Adventure, had taken away four of the natives.
The tents having been taken down, and the sick, who had greatly recovered, being received on board, our navigators quitted Otaheite, on wednesday, September 1st, and on the 3rd they arrived at the harbour of Owharre (or Fare) in Huaheine. Here they met with a kind reception, and purchased a
