jalava,
Oahtooha, Ojatava, and Opoloo by different navigators, who may have taken
the names of villages or districts to mean the whole island. The
population exceeded 20,000 at the beginning of last century.

[50-4] Turmeric powder, never a mark of distinction, was besmeared over
nursing mothers, chief women at the feasts connected with puberty, and
persons concerned in certain other ceremonies.

[51-1] Bougainville sighted Upolu on May 5th, 1760. A thick fog which
came on that afternoon, and lasted all the following day, prevented him
from approaching it, and from seeing Savaii, which he would have seen on
May 7th in clear weather. La Perouse coasted along its southern shore on
December 17th, 1789. Unfortunately, smarting from the massacre of de
Langle and his boat's crew at Tutuila, he was in no mood for
communicating with the natives, and he did not anchor.

[51-2] See p. 12.

[52-1] Fatafehi is the hereditary title of one of the spiritual chiefs of
Tonga. He had no executive authority, but his wealth, derived from his
lands and the offerings to which he was entitled, gave him considerable
influence. The complicated hierarchy of spiritual chiefs in Tonga was a
continual puzzle to Cook. Fatafehi at this time was an ornamental
personage, inferior in dignity to the Tui Tonga, and in power to Tukuaho,
who wielded the authority of his father Mumui, the Tui Kanakubolu. The
Toobou (Tubou) mentioned here was the deputy of the tyrant Tukuaho, who,
eight years later, was to pay the penalty of his crimes in the Revolution
of 1799. Hamilton mentions that the tradition of Tasman's visit in 1642
was still preserved.

[54-1] Among the people who boarded the ship from Tofoa Lieut. Hayward
recognized some of those who attacked Bligh's boat four days after the
mutiny, and murdered Quartermaster Norton, but solicitude for the crew of
the tender, which might call there, prevented Edwards from punishing them
as they deserved. No doubt, both at Tofoa and Namuka, the natives would
have attempted to take the ship had they thought success possible as, we
now know, they had planned to capture Cook's ships, and as they actually
did capture the privateer _Port-au-Prince_ in 1806 at Haapai. In 1808
William Mariner, one of the survivors of that ill-fated ship, who has
left behind him the best account of a native race that exists probably in
any language, was led by the strange native account of Norton's murder,
to visit his grave. The native