by others. However far the design was carried, a gracious Providence prevented its execution.
On wednesday, the 21st, Capt. Cook took a walk into the country, where he saw plantations larger, and better managed, than in Annamooka. Returning on board to dinner, he found a large canoe fast to the ship's stern, in which was no less a personage than the grave and stupid Areekee, seen in the former voyage at Tongataboo, and known by the name Latooliboula, or as some write it, Latoo Libooloo. He maintained the same gravity and taciturnity as before, and could not be persuaded to go on board. Feenou was in the ship at the time, yet the two chiefs took no notice of each other. It is now known, that Latoo Libooloo, who was weak in intellect, was not actually King, but obtained the title and honours of royalty on account of his high birth, as the natives here pay great deference to distinctions of rank and blood.
When our navigator was about to unmoor, on the 23rd, to proceed to Tongataboo, Feenou and Taipa came alongside in a canoe, stating that they were going to Vavaoo, to get further supplies for him, and begging him to wait their return. He immediately proposed to proceed thither with the ships, to examine Vavaoo, an object that was highly desirable, as the large and interesting cluster of islands so named, had not hitherto been explored by any European; but Feenou not wishing, in this instance, to have the ships with him, dissuaded him from his purpose, by falsely affirming, that there was neither harbour nor anchorage there. After he was gone, the Hapaee people spread a false report, that a large ship had arrived at Annamooka, perhaps wishing to get rid of their visitors,
