ngataboo, built their canoes in the same manner, that their islands
had hogs and fowls, and in general the same vegetable productions. The
ship so pointedly referred to in this conversation, could be no other
than the Dolphin; the only single ship from Europe, as far as we have
ever learned, that had touched of late years at any island in this part
of the Pacific Ocean, prior to my former visit of the Friendly
Islands.[175]

[Footnote 175: See Captain Wallis's Voyage in this Collection, vol. xii.
Captain Wallis calls both these islands high ones. But the superior
height of one of them may be inferred, from his saying, that it appears
like a sugar-loaf. This strongly marks its resemblance to Kao. From
comparing Poulaho's intelligence to Captain Cook, with Captain Wallis's
account, it seems to be past all doubt that Boscawen's Island is our
Kotahee, and Keppel's Island our Neeootabootaboo. The last is one of the
large islands marked in the foregoing list. The reader, who has been
already apprized of the variations of our people in writing down what
the natives pronounced, will hardly doubt that Kottejeea and Kootahee
are the same.--D.]

But the most considerable islands in this neighbourhood that we now
heard of, (and we heard a great deal about them,) are Hamoa, Vavaoo, and
Feejee. Each of these was represented to us as larger than Tongataboo.
No European that we know of, has, as yet, seen any of them. Tasman,
indeed, lays down in his chart an island nearly in the situation where,
I suppose Vavaoo to be, that is about the latitude of 91 deg..[176] But then
that island is there marked as a very small one, whereas Vavaoo,
according to the united testimony of all our friends at Tongataboo,
exceeds the size of their own island, and has high mountains, I should
certainly have visited it, and have accompanied Feenou from Hapaee, if
he had not then discouraged me, by representing it to be very
inconsiderable, and without any harbour. But Poulaho, the king,
afterward assured me that it was a large island; and that it not only
produced every thing in common with Tongataboo, but had the peculiar
advantage of possessing several streams of fresh water, with as good a
harbour as that which we found at his capital island. He offered to
attend me if I would visit it; adding, that if I did not find every
thing agreeing with his representation, I might kill him. I had not the
least doubt of the truth of his intelligence; and was satisfi