“I stood in again the next morning till within three or four miles of the land, where we were met with a number of canoes laden with provisions.  We brought to, and continued trading with the people in them till four in the afternoon, when, having got a pretty good supply, we made sail and stretched off to the northward.

“I had never met with a behavior so free from reserve and suspicion in my intercourse with any tribe of savages as we experienced in the people of this island.  It was very common for them to send up into the ship the several articles they brought for barter; afterward, they would come in themselves and make their bargains on the quarter-deck.

“We spent the night as usual, standing off and on.  It happened that four men and ten women who had come on board the preceding day still remained with us.  As I did not like the company of the latter, I stood in shore toward noon, principally with a view to get them out of the ship; and, some canoes coming off, I took that opportunity of sending away our guests.

“In the evening Mr. Bligh returned and reported that he had found a bay in which was good anchorage, and fresh water in a situation tolerably easy to be come at.  Into this bay I resolved to carry the ships, there to refit and supply ourselves with every refreshment that the place could afford.  As night approached the greater part of our visitors retired to the shore, but numbers of them requested our permission to sleep on board.  Curiosity was not the only motive, at least with some, for the next morning several things were missing, which determined me not to entertain so many another night.

“At eleven o’clock in the forenoon we anchored in the bay, which is called by the natives Karakaooa, (Kealakeakua), in thirteen fathoms water, over a sandy bottom, and about a quarter of a mile from the northeast shore.  In this situation the south point of the bay bore south by west, and the north point west half north.  We moored with the stream-anchor and cable, to the northward, unbent the sails and struck yards and topmasts.  The ships continued to be much crowded with natives, and were surrounded by a multitude of canoes.  I had nowhere, in the course of my voyages, seen so numerous a body of people assembled in one place.  For, besides those who had come off to us in canoes, all the shore of the bay was covered with spectators, and many hundreds were swimming around the ships like shoals of fish.  We could not but be struck with the singularity of this scene, and perhaps there were few on board who lamented our having failed in our endeavors to find a northern passage homeward last summer.  To this disappointment we owed our having it in our power to revisit the Sandwich Islands, and to enrich our voyage with a discovery which, though the last, seemed in many respects to be the most important that had hitherto been made by Europeans, throughout the extent of the Pacific Ocean.”