that he had killed him, instead of being sorry, he only laughed at it. In one instance only, a chief was caught pilfering; and Capt. Cook ordered him a dozen lashes, and made him pay a hog besides. After this, the chiefs never stole any thing themselves, but employed their servants, or slaves, to steal for them; and so little value did they put on the lives of the latter, that when any of them were caught in the act, instead of interceding for them, they often desired our people to kill them. The poor wretches were so inured to hard usage, that a flogging seemed to make no more impression on them, than it would have made on the main-mast. Captain Clerke hit upon a less cruel, but more effective, plan for checking their depredations; every culprit that was taken had his head completely shaved by the barber, and was thus not only made an object of ridicule, but a marked man; care being taken, that all who had received the tonsure should be kept at a distance.
Finding that the supplies here began to be exhausted, Capt. Cook got every thing on board, with a view to proceed to Tongataboo; but Feenou, apprized of his design, and perhaps dreading that his own pretensions to royalty would in that case be quickly at an end, strongly urged him to prefer the Hapaee isles, a group lying to the northeast; and our navigator yielded to his importunity. Some time was lost in recovering the Discovery's anchors, the cables having been cut by the coral rocks; but at last, on wednesday, May 14th, the ships left Annamooka. Between this island and Hapaee, the sea is sprinkled with a multitude of small isles; and, to avoid the risk of passing through the midst of them, Captain Cook took a
