Departure from New Zealand. Feelings of the two New Zealand youths. Mangeea discovered: notices of the island and its inhabitants. Discovery of Wateeoo; landing there; behaviour of the natives, who sought to detain the party on shore. Omiai's policy. He meets three of his countrymen, driven hither by a storm some years before. Supplies got a Wenooa-ette. Hervey Island visited; notices of the inhabitants. Palmerston Island; supplies got. Komango; trade with the natives. Arrival at Arnamooka. Kindness of the natives. The chiefs Toobou and Taipa. Feenou, a great chief, introduced as King of the Friendly Isles. Great authority of the chiefs, and abject state of the lower orders. Singular method adopted for suppressing theft. Visit paid to the Hapaee Isles by Feenou's desire. Friendly reception there; public festivities, single combats; liberal presents exchanged. Marines exercised. Night exhibitions. Intended treachery, as stated by Mariner. Areekee met with. Visit of Poulaho, the real King of the Friendly Isles. Landing at Kotoo. Return to Aanamooka. Feenou's true rank. Removal to Tongataboo. Meeting with Attago.
Having got every thing on board, the vessels sailed from Ship Cove, on tuesday, February 25th, and having passed through Cook's Strait, proceeded on their voyage in a S.E. direction. Scarcely were they out of sight of land, when the two New Zealand youths, who were affected with sea sickness, began, in a plaintive song, to lament their home and their kindred, to which they had bid a lasting adieu. Their fits of wailing were frequently renewed for a number of days, notwithstanding all the means employed to sooth and comfort them; but their sorrows gradually subsided, and at length
