30 RAIATEA IN 1836. 



pulp as necklaces. Every effort to propagate 

 this Shaddock-tree by its seed has failed ; and 

 I am not aware that any other method has been 

 tried. It certainly affords as interesting and 

 authentic a relic of our great navigator as any 

 Polynesian island can produce. 



Quitting Huahine, we made sail for Raiatea, 

 and, on the 12th of March, brought up at our 

 former anchorage off Utumaoro. The state of 

 this settlement had very materially improved 

 since our last visit. Its inhabitants were more 

 numerous and cheerful, more orderly and better 

 clothed, than we had seen them at any former 

 period. Their dwellings, also, though still 

 dirty, had a somewhat more comfortable and 

 respectable appearance. The royal chief, Ta- 

 matoa, whom we had last seen so lost to all 

 sense of propriety, and plunged in degrading 

 debauch, was now an altered man, healthy and 

 robust, correct in his conduct, and residing 

 in a neat hut, until a wooden house, now build- 

 ing in the best style of architecture in these 

 islands, should be completed for his use. 



The pleasing improvement a few months had 

 wrought in this community was chiefly to be 

 attributed to a voluntary and rigorous abolition 

 of the use of ardent spirits, as well as to the re- 

 establishment of a missionary authority on the 



