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cerning the future. ‘‘ I cannot,” said he, “ live 
much longer,—and who shall prosecute the work 
I have begun? My children are not yet so 
firmly established, but that they are liable to 
fall into‘error. They require the guidance of 
an intelligent virtuous man from some civilized 
nation.” 
At Tahaiti, as already stated, I met with 
one.of Adams’s wives, who had arrived there a 
short time before in an European ship, and 
from her I learnt many of the particulars here 
related. She spoke tolerably good English, 
but witha foreign accent. This old woman had 
been induced, by that longing for our native 
home which acts so powerfully upon the human 
mind, to return to the land of her birth, where 
she intended to have closed her life, but she 
soon changed her mind. The Tahaitians, she 
assured me, were by no means so virtuous as 
the natives of the little Paradise to which she 
was now all impatience to return. She had a 
very high opinion of her Adams, and main- 
tained that no man in the world was worthy 
of comparison with him. She still spoke with 
vehement indignation of the murder of the 
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