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powerful, and with greater poverty and less self- 

 assurance, none of those vices which disgrace the 

 people of the more Eastern Polynesia. 



We first learned at Aur, that these indigent 

 people also have their wars, and that the lust of 

 dominion and conquest has extended its curse to 

 them. They called upon us with our formidable 

 iron (we had not made them acquainted with the 

 more destructive powers of our arms) to interfere 

 like the powers of fate in their bloody feuds. 



The powerful Lamary set out from Meduro, to 

 subject, by arms, all the northern island-groups of 

 Radack. He governed now over Aur, Kawen, 

 and the north of the chain, and had his residence 

 in Aur. The people of Meduro and Arno wage 

 war against him and his kingdom. Their expedi- 

 tions in thirty boats, each manned by six to ten 

 men, have extended themselves to Otdia. 



The late battle in Tabual cost the lives of four 

 men, three on the side of Meduro, and one on the 

 side of Aur. In a former expedition, about twenty 

 were lost on each side, on the same island. 



Lamary, in the beginning of the year 18 17, 

 visited the islands in his territory, to assemble his 

 fleet of war-canoes, likewise consisting of thirty 

 boats, at Aur, whence he intended to proceed 

 against Meduro. We expected to find this prince 

 in Eilu; he was already at Udirick, at which group 

 he visited us in his boat in the open sea. When 



