one of the Sandwich Islands, lying to the north-west of Morotoi, at the distance of seven leagues. From the appearance of the north-east and north-west parts, it is the finest island of the group. Nothing can exceed the verdure of the hills, the variety of wood and lawn, and rich cultivated valleys, which the whole face of the country displays. A bay is formed by the north and west extremities, into which a fine river empties itself, through a deep valley; but as the water is brackish for 200 yards from the entrance, watering in it is not convenient. It contains about 60,000 inhabitants. Lieutenant Hergest, commander of the Daedalus store-ship, who had been sent from England, in 1794, to New South Wales, and thence to the Southern Pacific Ocean, with a supply of provisions for the Discovery sloop, Captain Vancouver, then on a voyage of discovery, was here surprised and murdered by the natives, together with Mr Gooch, the astronomer. W. Long. 157. 51. N. Lat. 21. 43.