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A VOYAGE TO 



'7-'7- feveral other fmall pieces and tufts of red feathers were pre- 



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fentcd. Each article was laid before one of the company, 

 who, I undeiftocd, was a priefl, and was delivered with a 

 fct fpecch or prayer, fpoken by one of Omai's friends, who 

 fat by him, but moflly dictated by himfelf. In thefc prayers, 

 he did not forget his friends in England, nor thofe who had 

 brought him fafe back. The Earee rahie no Pretane., Lord 

 Sandwich, Tootc, Tatee*, were mentioned in every one of 

 them. When Omai's offerings and prayers were finiflied, 

 the prieft took each article, in the fame order in which it 

 had been laid before him, and after repeating a prayer, fent 

 it to the inorai ; which, as Omai told us, was at a great 

 diftance, otherwifc the ofTcrings would have been made 

 there. 



Thefe religious ceremonies having been performed, Omai 

 fat down by me, and we entered upon bulinefs, by giving 

 the young Chief my prefent, and receiving his in return ; 

 and, all things confidered, they were liberal enough, on 

 both fides. Some arrangements were next agreed upon, as 

 to the manner of carrying on the intercourfe betwixt us ; 

 and I pointed out the mifchievous confequences that would 

 attend their robbing us, as they had done during my former 

 vifits. Otnai's ellablifhnient was then propofcd to the af- 

 fembled Clijefs. 



He acquainted them, " That he had been carried by us 

 into our country, where he was well received by the great 

 King and his En/rcs, and treated with every mark of regard 

 and afrci5lion, while he (laid amongll us ; that he had been 

 brought back again, enriched, by our liberality, with a va- 

 riety of articles, which would prove very ufeful to his 



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