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On the 7th, we were surprised with a visit from 

 Toneoneo. When he heard the dowager princess 

 was in the ship, it was with great difficulty we could 

 prevail on him to come on board, not from any ap- 

 prehension that he appeared to entertain of his safety, 

 but from an unwillingness to see her. Their meeting 

 was with sulky and lowering looks on both sides. 

 He staid but a short time, and seemed much dejected; 

 but we remarked, with some surprise, that the women, 

 both at his coming and going away, prostrated them- 

 selves before him ; and that he was treated by all 

 the natives on board with the respect usually paid to 

 those of his rank. Indeed, it must appear somewhat 

 extraordinary, that a person, who was at this time in 

 a state of actual hostility with Teavee's party, and 

 was even prepared for another battle, should trust 

 himself almost alone within the power of his enemies. 

 It is therefore to be observed, that the civil dissen- 

 tions, which are very frequent throughout all the 

 South Sea Islands, seem to be carried on without 

 much acrimony or bloodshed ; and that the deposed 

 governor still continues to enjoy the rank of an Eree, 

 and is left to make use of such means as may arise 

 for the regaining his lost consequence. But I shall 

 have occasion to speak more particularly on this sub- 

 ject in the next chapter; in which the best account 

 will be given, which we were able to collect, of the 

 political state of those countries. 



On the 8th, at nine in the morning, we weighed, 

 and sailed toward Oneeheow; and at three in the 

 afternoon, anchored in twenty fathoms water, nearly 

 on the same spot as in the year 1778. We moored 

 with the other anchor in twenty-six fathoms' water. 

 The high bluff, on the south end of the island, bore 

 east south-east ; the north point of the road, north half 

 east; and a bluff head to the south of it, north-east by 

 north. During the night we had a strong gale from 

 the eastward; and, in the morning of the 9th, found 

 the ship had driven a whole cable's length, and 



