HAP. 

 Vllf. 



1786. 



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on the hill. During this time our people were bunly 

 employed about the rigging, and getting the fhip ready 



for fea. - December 



At daylight in the morning of the 17th the old prieft, Sunday 17. 

 attended by his yava-chewer Towanooha, came on board. 

 The old man feemed quite enraged at the king's recent 

 conduct ; he told me that the king and all his principal 

 chiefs had been making offerings to their gods, and con- 

 fulting them ; but that the gods were good for nothing, 

 and that the king and his adherents were no better than 

 villains, for intending to do us any mifchief, after the 

 many prefents they had received from both fliips. I thanked 

 my old friend for his intelligence, and told him that v/e 

 fhould be conftantly on our guard. 



For feme days paft I had been ftrongly importuned by 

 Towanooha, and a very fine young man of the firft confe- 

 quence in the ifiand, who was a conftant companion of 

 the king's, to take them along with me to Atoui ; and 

 indeed Taheeterre had more than once urged me to take 

 them ; but I never thought they were in earned until this 

 forenoon, when the young chief, whofe name is Paapaaa, 

 came on board, and joined his entreaties with thofe of 

 Towanooha in fo very prefling a manner, that I promifed to 

 take them on board ; and they returned on fiiore in order 

 to prepare themfelves for the paffage. The yava-chewer, 

 being now as it were a gentleman paffenger, no longer 

 confidered himfelf as a fervant, but took to drinking yava. 

 heartily, and laid in a plentiful ftock of that root. 



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