Joseph Banks - Endeavour Journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0336
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Otahite
night till dark we found the traces of Canoes having been hauld inland & the people told us that the Island was in this place very narrow & that they draggd their canoes quite across cheifly over soft boggs - we now prepard to set out for the other Kingdom for so we are told it is Calld Tiarreboo & governd by Waheatua as ours is called Oboreonoo & governd by Dootahah. Tituboalo is in better spirits now than yesterday they will not kill us he says but they have got no meat indeed we had not since we came out seen a bit of breadfruit we thought that we might have exhausted it in this part of the Island but hop'd to find plenty in the other the people of which if enemies had certainly not traded with us after a few miles rowing we landed in a District calld Annuúhe the Name of the chief of which was Maraitata (the burying place of men) & his father Pahairedo (the stealer of boats) names which did not a little confirm Tituboalos relation these gentlemen however notwithstanding their terrible titles receivd us with all manner of civility gave us provisions & after some delay sold us a very large hog for a hatchet we saw among the crowd only two people whose faces we knew & not one bead or ornament which came out of our ship tho there were several European ones in one of the houses lay 2 12 pound shot one of which was markd with the English broad arrow these they said had been given them by Toottero the Spanish commander. We now walkd forward on foot till we came to the district which particularly belonged to Waheatua it was