156 CAPTAIN COOK 



When the Resolution was ready to leave 

 Huaheine, the aged Orea was the last islander 

 to leave the ship. Cook said to him as they 

 parted : "Good-bye, good king. This is our last 

 meeting. I shall not return to your hospitable 

 island. I am going far, very far away. Never 

 shall we see one another again." The old man 

 wept silently for a long time, then he replied to 

 his friend: "Let your children come here and 

 we will treat them well." 



Cook then went to Ulletea, where, Oreo, the 

 chief who had always shown himself so prompt 

 and faithful towards him, greeted him with all 

 possible warmth. He begged the Captain to 

 return to the island, but when the latter an- 

 nounced that he had no intention of revisiting 

 the country again, a flood of tears flowed from 

 Oreo's eyes. The grief of the chief communi- 

 cated itself to his wife and daughter, and Cook, 

 much disturbed by this triple outburst, was com- 

 pelled to listen to a concert of lamentations on 

 the part of this amiable and harmonious family. 



At the moment when the ship was about to 

 make sail, Oreo entreated his foreign friend to 

 return to Ulietea at least once more. Seeing that 

 Cook would give no promise, he asked the name 

 of the place where he would be buried. The 



