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tion was unnecefTary; for the natives there had got in- ^ »777- 



' November. 



formation of my coming, and were prepared to deliver « . . 



him up. 



I found Harrifon, with the mufquet lying before him, 

 fitting between two women, who, the moment that I en- 

 tered the houfe, rofe up to plead in his behalf. As it was 

 highly proper to difcourage fuch proceedings, I frowned 

 upon them, and bid them begone. Upon this they burft 

 into tears, and walked off. Paha, the Chief of the diftricTr, 

 now came with a plantain tree, and a fucking pig, which 

 he would have prefented to me, as a peace-offering. I re- 

 Jedled it, and ordered him out of my fight ; and having em- 

 barked, with the deferter, on board the firfl boat that ar- 

 rived, returned to the fliips. After this, harmony was 

 again reflored. The fellow had nothing to fay in his de- 

 fence, but that the natives had enticed him away ; and this 

 might in part be true, as it was certain, that Paha, and alfo 

 the two women above-mentioned, had been at the fliip the 

 day before he deferted. As it appeared, that he had re- 

 mained upon his poll:, till within a few minutes of the time 

 when he was to have been relieved, the punifliment that 1 

 inlli<5ted upon him was not very fevere. 



Though we had feparated from Omai, we were fiill near 

 enough to have intelligence of his proceedings ; and I had 

 defircd to hear from him. Accordingly, about a fortnight 

 after our arrival at Ulietea, he fent two of his people in a 

 canoe ; who brought me the fatisfadory intelligence, that 

 he remained undiflurbed by the people of the ifland, and 

 that every thing went well with him, except that his goat 

 had died in kidding. He accompanied this intelligence, 

 with a requeft, that I would fend him another goat, and 



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