26 AVOYAGETO 



'777. to him, he did not fail to rife up and accofl him, as well as 



Auguft. * 



V- — , — * he could. 



We alfo found here, the young man whom we called 

 Oedidce, but whofe real name is Hecte-hcete. I had carried 

 him from Ulietea in 1773, and brought him back in 1774 j 

 after he had vifired the Friendly Iflands, New Zealand, 

 Ealler Ifland, and the Marqucfes, and been on board my 

 Ihip, in that cxtenfive navigation, about feven montlis. He 

 was, at leaft, as tenacious of his good breeding, as the man 

 •who had been at Lima •, and yes. Sir, or if you plea/e, Sir, 

 were as frequently repeated by him, as fi Sennor, was by 

 the other. Heete-heete, who is a native of Bolabola, had 

 arrived in Otaheite, about three months before, v/ith no 

 other intention, that we could learn, than to gratify his cur 

 riofity, or, perhaps, fome other favourite pallion; which 

 are, very often, the only objects of the purfuit of other 

 travelling gentlemen. It was evident, however, that hs 

 preferred the modes, and even garb, of his countrymen, to 

 ours. For, though I gave him fomc clothes, which our 

 Admiralty Board had been pleafed to fend for his ufe (to 

 which I added a chefl of tools, and a few other articles, as 

 a prefent from myfelf), he declined wearing them, after a 

 few days. This inflance, and that of the perfon who had 

 been at Lima, may be urged as a proof of the ftrong pro- 

 pcnfity natural to man, of returning to habits acquired at 

 an early age, and only interrupted by accident. And, per- 

 haps, it may be concluded, that even Omai, who had im- 

 bibed almoll the whole Lnglilh manners, will, in a very 

 fliort time after our leaving him, like Oedidee, and the vi- 

 jQter of Lima, return to his own native garments. 



WTidncf. 27. In the morning of the 27th, a man came from Oheite- 

 pcba, and told us, that two Spaniih iliips had anchored in 



that 



