Nothing could prevent their plundering our voyagers, in every quarter; and they did it in the most daring and insolent manner.

There was scarcely any thing which they did not attempt to steal; and yet, as the crowd was always great, the captain would not permit the sentinels to fire, lest the innocent should suffer with the guilty.
Captain Cook, on the 19th, made a distribution of the animals which he had selected as presents for the principal men of the island.

To Poulaho, the king, he gave a young English bull and cow, together with three goats; to Mareewagee, a chief of consequence, a Cape ram and two ewes; and to Feenou a horse and a mare.

He likewise left in the island a young boar and three young sows of the English breed; and two rabbits, a buck and a doe.

Omai, at the same time, was instructed to represent the importance of these animals, and to explain, as far as he was capable of doing it, the manner in which they should be preserved and treated.