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As foon as the boat reached the beach, Feenou, and '777' 



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fome others, inftantly ftepped out. Young Fattafaihe fol- 

 lowing them, was called back by Mareewagee, wlio now 

 paid the heir apparent the fame obeifance, and in the 

 lame manner, that I had feen it paid to the king. And 

 when old Toubou, and one of the old ladies, had fliewn 

 him the fame marks of refpedt, he was fufFercd to land. 

 This ceremony being over, the old people fiepped from my 

 boat, into a canoe, that was waiting to carry them to their 

 place of abode. 



I was not lorry to be prefent on this occafion, as I was 

 thus furniihed with the moft unequivocal proofs of the fu- 

 preme dignity of Poulaho and his fon, over the other prin- 

 cipal Chiefs. Indeed, by this titne, I had acquired fome 

 certain information about tlie relative fituations of the fe- 

 veral great n)en, whofe names have been fo often men- 

 tioned. I now knew, that Mareewagee and old Toobou 

 were brothers. Both of them were men of great property 

 in the illand, and fcemed to be in high eftimation with the 

 people; the former, in particular, had the very honourable 

 appellation given to him, by every body, of Motooa Tonga; 

 that is to fay, Father of Tonga, or of his Country. The 

 nature of his relationfliip to the king was alfo no longer a 

 fecret to us j for we now underftood, that he was his fa- 

 ther-in-law ; Poulaho having married one of his daughters, 

 by whom he had this fon ; fo that Mareewagee was the 

 prince's grandfather. Foulaho's appearance having fatisfied 

 us, that we had been under a miltake, in confidering Fee- 

 nou as the fovereign of thefe iflands, we had been, at firft, 

 much puzzled about his real rank ; but that was, by this 

 time, afccrtaincd. Feenou was one of Mareewagee's fons; 

 and Tooboueitoa was another. 



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