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other kingdom ; he said that the name of it was 

 TiARRABou, or Otaheite Ete ; and that of the chief 

 who governed it Waheatua. Upon this occasion, also, 

 we learnt that the name of the peninsula where we 

 had taken our station was Opoureonu, or Otaheite 

 Nue. Our new associate seemed to be now in better 

 spirits than he had been the day before : the people in 

 Tiarrabou would not kill us, he said ; but he assured 

 MS that we should be able to procure no victuals 

 among them ; and, indeed, we had seen no bread-fruit 

 since we set out. 



After rowing a few miles, we landed in a district, 

 which was the dominion of a chief called Maraitata, 

 the burying-place of men, whose father's name was 

 Pahairedo, the stealer of boats. Though these 

 names seemed to favour the account that had been 

 given by Tituboalo, we soon found that it was not 

 true. Both the father and the son received us with 

 the greatest civility, gave us provisions, and, after 

 some delay, sold us a very large hog for a hatchet. A 

 crowd soon gathered round us, but we saw only two 

 people that we knew ; neither did we observe a single 

 bead or ornament among them that had come from 

 our ship, though we saw several things which had 

 been brought from Europe. In one of the houses lay 

 two twelve-pound shot, one of which was marked with 

 the broad arrow of England, though the people said 

 they had them from the ships that lay in Bougain- 

 ville's harbour. 



We proceeded on foot till we came to the district 

 which was immediately under the government of the 

 principal chief, or king of the peninsula, Waheatua. 

 Waheatua had a son, but whether, according to the 

 custom of Opoureonu, he administered the govern- 

 ment as regent, or in his own right, is uncertain. 

 This district consists of a large and fertile plain, wa- 

 tered by a river so wide, that we were obliged to ferry 

 over it in a canoe : our Indian train, however, chose 

 to swim, and took to tlie water with the same faci- 



