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Arrival at Ulietea. — Afiroi70?nical Obfcrvations. — A Ma- 

 rine defer ts^ and is delivered tip. — Intellige7jce froi7t Omai. 

 — InJ}ru&io?is to Captain Gierke. — Another Defertion of 

 a Midfjipman and a Seaman, — Three of the chief Perfons 

 of the If and confined on that Account. — A Defign to 

 feize Captains Cook and Clerke, difcovej-ed, — The tivo 

 Dcfertcrs brought hack^ and the Pr if oners releafed. — The 

 Ships fail. — Refrepments received at Ulietea. — Prefent 

 and former State of that If and ^ — Account of its de- 

 throned King^ and of the late Regent of Huaheine, 



^"^^11 'T^HE boat which carried Omai afliorc, never to join us 

 -■- again, having returned to the fliip, with the remainder 

 of the hawfer, we hoifted her in, and immediately ilood 

 over for UHctea, where I intended to touch next. At ten 

 o'clock at night, we brought to, till four the next morning^ 

 when we made fail round the South end of the iHand, for 

 the harbour of Ohamaneno*. We met with calms and 

 light airs of wind, from different duee^ions, by turns ; fo 

 that, at noon, we were flill a league from the entrance of 

 the harbour. While we were thus detained, my old friend 

 Oreo, Chief of the iiland, with his fon, and Pootoe, his fon- 

 in-law, come oil' to vifit us. 



♦ See a plan of this harbour, in Hawkcfvvorth's Collc<Sion, Vol. ii. p. 248. 



Being 



Noveraber. 



