one of the Society islands in the South sea. This island is about 21 leagues in circuit. Its productions are plantains, cocoa-nuts, yams, hogs, and fowl; the two latter of which are scarce. The foil on the top of one of the hills was found to be a kind of flone marle; on the sides were found some scattered flints, and a few small pieces of a cavernous or spongy flone lava, of a whitish colour, which seemed to contain fome remains of iron, fo that it may possibly be here lodged in the mountains in a great quantity. Nothing was feen on this island to diftinguish either its inhabitants, or their manners, from the other neighbouring islands. The first Europeans who landed on this shore were Mr (now Sir Joseph) Banks and Dr Solander; they were received by the natives in the most courteous manner, reports concerning them having been their harbingers from Otaheite. Every body feemed to fear and reftect them, placing in them at the same time the utmost confidence: behaving, as if confiduous that their visitors pofted the power of doing them mischief without a difposition to make ufe of it.