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seemed to have some apprehension that she 

 might suffer from hunger. At this point, No- 

 mahanna became so much interested, that she 

 requested to see the picture also : she thought 

 the mouth much too small, and begged that 

 it might be enlarged. The portrait, however, 

 when finished, did not please her ; and slie re- 

 marked rather peevishly — " I am surely much 

 handsomer than that !" 



On the 17th of January, Karemaku arrived 

 with a squadron of two and three-masted ships, 

 and many soldiers, before the harbour of Hana- 

 ruro, after having terminated the war at O Tuai 

 quite to his satisfaction. The fleet being un- 

 able to enter the harbour, on account of a con- 

 trary wind, was obliged to cast anchor outside. 

 I immediately sent off an officer with my shal- 

 lop, to convey to the King''s deputy my congra- 

 tulations on his arrival ; he and his young wife 

 (his wife, of whom I spoke in my former voy- 

 age, w^as since dead,) returned in the shallop, 

 and came on board my ship. I fired a salute 

 as he approached, which pleased him much, as 

 he said this compliment from a Russian ship of 

 war would tend to remove from the minds of 



