At these answers Oedidee would eagerly catch, take him on one side, and ask him over again.

The captain declares, that he had not words to describe the anguish which appeared in this young man's breast, when he went away.

He looked up at the ship, burst into tears, and then sunk down into the canoe.

Oedidee was a youth of good parts, and of a docile, gentle, and humane disposition; but as he was almost wholly ignorant of the religion, government, manners, customs, and traditions of his countrymen, and the neighbouring islands, no material knowledge could have been collected from him, had our commander brought him away.

He would, however, in every respect, have been a better specimen of the nation than Omai.
When Captain Cook first came to these islands, he had some thoughts of visiting Tupia's famous Bolabola.