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nary occafions, however, the king interpofes his authority : thus I princi- 



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heard Oree,. king of Huaheine, order his Hoa * to go into a diftrid: socie- 

 o£ another chief, and bid him tell fuch were the words of the 



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Aree-rahai ; to apprehend the thieves, and feize the flolen goods, 

 which he enumerated ; the goods were in part reftored the fame 

 day, and the next day he was ready to punifh the thieves in our 

 prefence, had we not already been too far out at fea, and had we at 



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firfl well underftood his meaning. At O-Taheitee we faw the re- 

 view of the naval armaments of two diflridis,, which were deflined 

 to fubdue a great revolted vafTal,, or feudal lord, on the ifle. of 



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ImeOi. in the diftrid; of Morca-.-y and we. were told, that every 

 chief of a diftrid muft fend his quota towards this expedition: 

 and even the great chief of O-Taheitee-eetee, or Tiarraboo, would 

 join in it as his duty required, O-Too, perhaps, not being well 

 enough ikilled in the noble art of war, wa& not intended to com- 

 mand the fleet, and therefore gave the dignity of high-admiral, to 



T-Owha, chief of Atahooroo ; though he told us at the fame 

 time, that he would likewife be in the fleet,, in the quality of a 

 warrior,' or as we might call it,, of a knigkt. Thefe circumflanccs 



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fufliciently prove, that their government is a kind, of feudal fyflem.; 

 but it has much of that original patriarchal form, blended with it, 

 which, redifies the many defeds of the feudal government, and for 



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* lloa fignifies a frieod, or chief-attendant on the king; we fliould call him a lord in nx'ait 

 ing^ of which the king of Tuhcitce has a, good number, doing duty in their turns* 



