In the afternoon of the same day, Lieutenant Pickersgill returned from Attahourou, to which place he had been sent by the captain, for the purpose of procuring some hogs that had been promised.

In this expedition, the lieutenant had seen the celebrated Oberea, who has been so much the object of poetical fancy.

Her situation was very humble compared with what it had formerly been.

She was not only altered much for the worse in her person, but appeared to be poor, and of little or no consequence or authority in the island.
In the evening, a favourable wind having sprung up, our commander put to sea; on which occasion he was obliged to dismiss his Otaheite friends sooner than they wished to depart; but well satisfied with his kind and liberal treatment.
From Matavai Bay, Captain Cook directed his course for the island of Huaheine, where he intended to touch.

This island he reached the next day, and, early in the morning of the 3rd of September, made sail for the harbour of Owharre, in which he soon came to an anchor.