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A VOYAGE TO 



»777- fentlv acquainted them with what we had done at Eimeo, 



> . — J and mukipUed the number of houfes and canoes that we 



had dcftroyed, by ten at Icafl. I was not forry for this ex- 

 aggerated account ; as I faw, that it made a great impref- 

 fion upon all who heard it ; fo that I had hopes it would 

 induce the inhabitants of this ifland to behave better to us, 

 than they had done during my former vifits. 



While I was at Otaheite, I had learned that my old friend 

 Oree was no longer the Chief of Huaheine ; and that, at 

 this time, he refided at Ulietea. Indeed, he never had been 

 more than regent during the minority of Taireetareea, the 

 prefent Earee rah'ie ; but he did not give up the regency, till 

 he was forced. His two fons, Opoony and Towha, were the 

 firft who paid me a vifit, coming on board before the fliip 

 was well in the harbour, and bringing a prefent. with 

 ihem. 



Our arrival brought all the principal people of the ifland 

 Monday 13. to our fliips, on tlic nc:it morning, being the 13th. This 

 was juft what I wiflicd, as it was liigh time to think of fet- 

 tling Omai ; and the prefcnce of thefe Chiefs, I guefTed, 

 would enable mc to do it in the mofl fat is factory manner, 

 lie now feemed to have an inclination to cllablUh hinifelf 

 at Ulietea; and if he and I could have agreed about, the 

 mode of bringing that plan to bear, I fliould liave had no 

 objctflion to adopt it. His father had been difpoiTcfled by 

 the men of Bolabola, when they conquered Ulietea, of fome 

 land in that ifland; and 1 made no doubt of being able to 

 get it rcftored to the Ion in an amicable manner. For that 

 purpofe it was nccefTary, that he fliould be upon good terras 

 with thofe who now were mailers of the ifland ; but he was 

 too great a patriot to liflcn to any fuch thing ; and was 



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