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Grangers, whofe fole views were to plunder him. And, if '777^ 

 I had not interfered, they would not have left him a fmgle '- .-.-. ^ , 

 article worth the carrying from the ifland. This ncceiTarily 

 drew upon him tlie ill-will of the principal Chiefs > M'ho 

 found that they could not procure, from any one in the 

 fliips, fuch valuable prefents as Omai beflowed on the loweft 

 of the people, his companions. 



As foon as we had dined, a party of us accompanied Otoo 

 to Oparre, taking with us the poultry, with which we were 

 to (lock the ifland. They confided of a peacock and hen 

 (which Lord Bcfborough was fo kind as to fend me, for 

 this purpofe, a few days before I left London); a turkey 

 cock and hen -, one gander, and three geefe ; a drake, and 

 four ducks. All thefe I left at Oparre, in the pofTeffion of 

 Otoo ; and the geefe and ducks began to breed, before we 

 failed. We found there, a gander, which the natives told 

 us, was the fame that Captain Wallis had given to Oberea 

 ten years before ; feveral goats ; and the Spanifli bull, 

 whom they kept tied to a tree, near Otoo's houfe. I never 

 faw a finer animal of his kind. He was now the property 

 of Etary, and had been brought from Oheitepeha to this 

 place, in order to be fliipped for Bolabola. But it paflfes my 

 comprehenfion, how they can contrive to carry him in one 

 of their canoes. If we had not arrived, it would have been of 

 little confequence who had the property of him, as, without 

 a cow, he could be of no ufe ; and none had been left with 

 him. Though the natives told us, that there were cows on 

 board the Spanifli fliips, and that they took them away with 

 them, I cannot believe this ; and fliould rather fuppofe, that 

 they had died in the paflfage from Lima. The next day, I Monday 2j. 

 fent the tlnee cows, that I had on board, to this bull j and 



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