Tubourai Tamaide, and several more of the principal friends to the English, had fallen in this battle, together with a large number of the common people.

A peace subsisted, at present, between the two grand divisions of the island.
On the 20th, one of the natives carried off a musket belonging to the guard onshore.

Captain Cook, who was himself a witness of the transaction, sent out some of his people after him; but this would have been to very little purpose, if the thief had not been intercepted by several of his own countrymen, who pursued him voluntarily, knocked him down, and returned the musket to the English.
This act of justice prevented our commander from being placed in a disagreeable situation.

If the natives had not given their immediate assistance, it would scarcely have been in his power to have recovered the musket, by any gentle means whatever; and if he had been obliged to have recourse to other methods, he was sure of loosing more than ten times its value.
The fraud of one, who appeared as a chief, is, perhaps, not unworthy of notice.

This man, in a visit to Captain Cook, presented him with a quantity of fruit; among which were a number of cocoa-nuts, that had already been exhausted of their liquor by our people, and afterwards thrown overboard.