history of this remarkable
man; his remorseless ambition and his natural affections--his contempt
for the fables and ceremonies of his country when in prosperity--his
patient submission to them when in distress--his strong intellects--his
evil deeds--and the death which was believed to be inflicted on him in
vengeance by the over-ruling divinities whom he defied."

[58-1] Hunga.

[58-2] Niuababu.

[58-3] Falevai.

[58-4] Fonua Lei (Land of Whales' teeth).

[58-5] Late.

[58-6] Toku.

[58-7] These islands had already been twice visited and named, and Cook,
though he did not visit them, gives all their native names in his list of
the islands composing the Friendly or Tonga Group. The honour of their
discovery belongs to the Spanish pilot Maurelle, who sailed from Manila
in 1781, without proper charts or instruments and almost without
provisions for his long voyage to America. Reduced to desperate straits
by famine, he sighted Fonua Lei, the northernmost of the Tonga Group,
which he called Margoura, believing it to be one of the Solomon Islands.
At Vavau he was liberally entertained by Bau or Poulaho, the Tui Tonga of
Cook's visit four years before. La Perouse passed close to the islands in
December, 1787, but, consistent with his determination to hold no further
intercourse with natives after the murder of M. de Langle, did not enter
the harbour of Neiafu. Edwards had no account of either of these voyages.
La Perouse's journals were not published until 1797.

Fonua Lei was again destroyed by an eruption in 1846. The inhabitants who
had plantations on it were removed to Vavau just in time.

[59-1] There is only one. It was so named by Tasman 1642. Maurelle called
it Sola. But Edwards probably mistook the twin islets of Hunga Tonga and
Hunga Haapai for Pylstaart.

[62-1] Niua-fo'ou (New Niua), discovered by W. Cornelis Schouten in the
Dutch ship _Eendracht_ (Unity) on May 14th, 1616, and named by him "Good
Hope" Island. Twelve canoes came off, and some of them attempted to take
the boat that he had sent ashore for water, but desisted on discharge of
a volley which killed two men. He wrote: "The island was full of black
cliffs, green on the top, and black, and was full of coco-trees and black
earth. There was a large village, and several other houses on the
seashore: the land was undulating, but not very high." No ship is known
to have visited the island from 1614 to this visit in 1791.

The cocoanuts grown he