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women came over, and fat down on the banks clofe by us, T 779- 



J March. 



and at noon we prevailed on fomeof the men to bring hogs < — -v— * 

 and roots for our people, and to drefs them for us. As foon 

 as we had left the beach, they came down to the fea-fide, 

 and one of them threw a ftone at us ; but his conduct feem- 

 ing to be highly difapproved of by all the reft, we did not 

 think it proper to fhew any refentment. 



The next day, we completed our watering, without meet- WedneC 3. 

 ing with any material difficulty. On our return to the fhips> 

 we found that fcveral Chiefs had been on board, and had 

 made excufes for the behaviour of their countrymen, at- 

 tributing their riotous conduct to the quarrels which fub- 

 fifted at that time amongft the principal people of the ifland, 

 and which had occafioncd a general want of order and fub- 

 ordination amongft them. The government of Atooi was 

 in difpute between Toneoneo, who had the fupreme power 

 when we were here laft year, and a boy named Teavee* 

 They are both, by different fathers, the grandfons of Per- 

 reeorannee, king of Woahoo, who had given the govern- 

 ment of Atooi to the former, and that of Onecheow to the 

 latter. The quarrel had arifen about the goats we had left 

 at Oneeheow the laft year ; the right of property in which 

 was claimed by Toneoneo, on the pretence of that ifland's 

 being a dependency of his. The friends of Teavce infill- 

 ing on the right of pofTemon, both parties prepared to main: 

 tain their pretenfions by force; and, a few days before our 

 arrival, a battle had been fought, in which Toneoneo had 

 been wonted. The confequence of this victory was likely 

 to affect Toneoneo in a much deeper manner than by the 

 mere lofs of the objects in difpute *, for the mother of 

 Teavee, having married a fecond hufband, who was a Chief, 

 of Atooi, and at the head of a powerful faction there, he 



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