oth,
he and the rest of his brethren seemed much satisfied with this
assurance.

In the mean time, Captain Cook having called off the launch, which was
stationed at the north point of the bay, and taken it along with him,
proceeded to Kowrowa, and landed with the lieutenant and nine marines.
He immediately marched into the village, where he was received with
the usual marks of respect; the people prostrating themselves before
him, and bringing their accustomed offerings of small hogs. Finding
that there was no suspicion of his design, his next step was to
enquire for Terreeoboo, and the two boys, his sons, who had been his
constant guests on board the Resolution. In a short time, the boys
returned, along with the natives, who had been sent in search of
them, and immediately led Captain Cook to the house where the king
had slept. They found the old man just awoke from sleep; and, after
a short conversation about the loss of the cutter, from which Captain
Cook was convinced that he was in no wise privy to it, he invited him
to return in the boat, and spend the day on board the Resolution. To
this proposal the king readily consented, and immediately got up to
accompany him.

Things were in this prosperous train, the two boys being already
in the pinnace, and the rest of the party having advanced near the
water-side, when an elderly woman, called Kanee-kabareea, the mother
of the boys, and one of the king's favourite wives, came after him,
and, with many tears and entreaties, besought him not to go on board.
At the same time, two chiefs, who came along with her, laid hold of
him, and, insisting that he should go no farther, forced him to sit
down. The natives, who were collecting in prodigious numbers along the
shore, and had probably been alarmed by the firing of the great guns,
and the appearances of hostility in the bay, began to throng round
Captain Cook and their king. In this situation, the lieutenant of
marines, observing that his men were huddled close together in the
crowd, and thus incapable of using their arms, if any occasion should
require it, proposed to the captain to draw them up along the rocks,
close to the waters edge; and the crowd readily making way for them
to pass they were drawn up in a line, at the distance of about thirty
yards from the place where the king was sitting.

All this time, the old king remained on the ground, with the strongest
marks of terror and dejection in his countenance; Capt