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a«Sionj for I am perfuaded from other reafons, that O-Too, was manners 



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a well meaning man, inclined to fear that we might abufe the fupc- 



riority of our power againft him. and his people 5 but at- the fame 

 time benevolent, good-natured, and; fludioufly promoting the. 

 wealth, power,, and happinefs of his people :. though I belie v« 



him incapable of adting in fo noble, difmterefted 



manner 



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in whatever nation. he might have happened to live.. The chara6ter. 



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of the fifter,. is in my opinion, lefs amiable than that ofO-Too^ 



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efpecially if it be true, what a great many ufed to tell u?,, that 

 ilie was a kind of a Meff'alina, demeaning herfelf fo low as to admit. 

 Toutous to her embraces.. Belides this inftance of the immorality 

 and fel£fhnefs of the, great, I can. add. another; IFamee-ou ■2.nd. 

 Fotatou her. hufband, were fo greedy after the poifeffion of red 



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parrots feathers, that having fold. all the hogs,, which they poffibly 



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breail-plates, 

 Wamee-oiiy and. 



could fpare, together with. a fine helmet, feveral 



and a mourning drefs, they agreed to 



ihe in confequence offered herfelf to Captain Cook 



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Imufl confefs, having received a favourable and great idea of 



Potatou's charad;er,, this' tranfadion made 



me afhamed of him ; 



and,being before elated with the thought of having found a nation 



where 



