hatever it is, exists in the place, and
not in the needles, for Mr Bayley found the same, or rather more
difference.

The tides are more considerable at these islands, than at any other of
my discoveries in this ocean, that lie within the tropics. At Annamooka
it is high water, on the full and change days, nearly at six o'clock;
and the tide rises and falls there, upon a perpendicular, about six
feet. In the harbour of Tongataboo, it is high water on the full and
change days, at fifty minutes past six. The tide rises and falls on
those days, four feet nine inches, and three feet six inches at the
Quadratures. In the channels between the islands, which lie in this
harbour, it flows near tide and half-tide, that is, the flood continues
to run up near three hours, after it is high water by the shore, and the
ebb continues to run down, after it is flood by the shore. It is only in
these channels, and in a few other places near the shores, that the
motion of the water or tide is perceivable, so that I can only guess at
the quarter from which the flood comes. In the road of Annamooka, it
sets W.S.W., and the ebb the contrary; but it falls into the harbour of
Tongataboo from the N.W., passes through the two narrow channels, on
each side of Hoolaiva, where it runs with considerable rapidity, and
then spends itself in the _lagoon_. The ebb returns the same way, and
runs with rather greater force. The N.W. tide is met, at the entrance of
the _lagoon_, by one from the E.; but this, as I have before observed,
was found to be very inconsiderable.[193]

[Footnote 193: Tongataboo has been visited several times by Europeans
since Cook's last voyage, viz. by Perouse, in 1787; by Captain Edwards,
in 1791; by D'Entrecasteaux, in 1793; and by some of the missionaries,
in 1797. From the accounts furnished by some of these visits, several
particulars might have been added to what has now been delivered. But
they are comparatively unimportant, and did not seem to warrant any
specific regard. Besides, if they had been more considerable, it would
have been improper to anticipate what belongs to another part of our
work. On the whole, however, the information given by Captain Cook, and
his associate Mr Anderson, will ever be esteemed a faithful and very
valuable description of an interesting island and people.--E.]

A
VOCABULARY
OF THE
LANGUAGE OF THE FRIENDLY ISLES,

May, &c. 1777.

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