a deputy or minister of Fattahfahe who is generally
acknowledged to be the superior chief of all the islands known under the
names of the Friendly, Happy, and also of many other islands unknown to
us. Fattahfahe and Toobou were on board the _Pandora_ when she got under
way, attended by two large double sailing canoes, the largest of which
had upwards of 40 persons on board. I suppose that they came on board to
take leave and in expectation of getting some additional farewell
presents, in which they were not disappointed.

I knew that Fattahfahe was shortly going to make a tour of the Happy
Islands, and as I perceived that he was exceedingly well pleased with
what I had given him, and with his situation and accommodation on board
the ship, I invited him to come with us to Toofoa [Tofoa] and Kaho [Kao],
two islands I was then steering for and that I intended to visit, as I
thought he would be useful by procuring us a favourable landing at
Toofoa, the island whose inhabitants had behaved so treacherously to Lt.
Bligh when he put in there for refreshments in the _Bounty's_ launch.
Before the sun set we got within a small distance of the island, but it
was too late for our boats to go on shore, and the canoes were sent to
the islands to announce the arrival of these great chiefs; their coming
in the ship I made no doubt would increase their consequence, and
probably also the tribute they might think proper to impose on their
subjects.

The next morning Lt. Corner, attended by the two chiefs, was sent on
shore at Toofoa to search and to make the necessary inquiries after the
_Bounty_ and our tender, &c. and then to cross the channel which is about
three or four miles over, and to do the same at Kaho, and when I saw the
boat put off from Toofoa and stand over for the other island I bore away
with the ship and ran through the channel between the two islands. At
four in the afternoon Lt. Corner, Fattahfahe and Toobou, returned on
board without success in their search and inquiries. The two chiefs were
put on board their canoes, and they made sail for the Happy
Islands.[54-1]

I now intended to have visited Tongataboo and the other of the Friendly
Islands, but, as the wind was Southerly and unfavourable for the purpose,
I took the resolution once more to visit Oattooah, and also the
Navigators' Islands in search of the _Bounty_ and our tender and to
endeavour to fall in to the eastward of those islands. On the morning of
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