TAHITI AND EHIEO. 



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On leaving Eimeo, I bade adieu to the Tahitian islands ; but I 

 cannot close the portion of the narrative which is devoted to them, 

 without again expressing the pleasure I and all my officers derived 

 from our intercourse with the missionaries, and our obligations for 

 the kindness received from them and other residents. Among those 

 to whom we are indebted, I cannot refrain from naming George 

 Pritchard, Esq., H. B. M. Consul, of whose strenuous exertions to 

 advance the welfare of the people, and sustain the government in its 

 efforts to promote their best interests, I became by observation fully 

 aware. It is to be regretted that his very activity in thus labouring 

 in many ways for the good of the community in which he resides, 

 should be the probable cause of unkind and unfounded imputations, 

 from those actuated, if not by motives positively bad, at least by a 

 less enlightened or less ardent zeal. 



BEATING TAPA. 



