their Settlement at Oonalashka. Of the Natives of the Island.
Their Persons. Dress. Ornaments. Food. Houses and domestic
Utensils. Manufactures. Manner of producing Fire. Canoes.
Fishing and Hunting Implements. Fishes, and Sea Animals. Sea
and Water Fowls, and Land Birds. Land Animals and Vegetables.
Manner of burying the Dead. Resemblance of the Natives on
this Side of America to the Greenlanders and Esquimaux. Tides.
Observations for determining the Longitude of Oonalashka. 369

XII. Departure from Oonalashka, and future Views. The Island
Amoghta. Situation of a remarkable Rock. Strait between
Oonalashka and Oonella repassed. Progress to the South.
Melancholy Accident on board the Discovery. Mowee, one of the
Sandwich Islands, discovered. Intercourse with the Natives.
Visit from Terreeoboo. Another Island, called Owhyhee,
discovered. The Ships ply to Windward to get round it.
An Eclipse of the Moon observed. The Crew refuse to drink
Sugar-cane Beer. Cordage deficient in Strength. Commendation
of the Natives of Owhyhee. The Resolution gets to Windward of
the Island. Her Progress down the South-East Coast. Views of
the Country, and Visits from the Natives. The Discovery joins.
Slow Progress Westward. Karakakooa Bay examined by Mr Bligh.
Vast Concourse of the Natives. The Ships anchor in the Bay,
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CHAP. V. Captain King's Journal of the Transactions on Returning to
the Sandwich Islands, 421

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