OVOLAU. 69 
put into the Bay of Islands for repairs. Paddy asserts that a difficulty 
had occurred here between Captain Sartori and his men about their 
provisions, which was amicably settled. The Gloriant finally sailed 
from New Zealand for Tongataboo, where they arrived just after the 
capture of a vessel, which he supposed to have been the Port au 
Prince, as they had obtained many articles from the natives, which 
had evidently belonged to some large vessel. Here they remained 
some months, and then sailed for Sandalwood Bay, where the men, 
on account of their former quarrel with Captain Sartori, refused to go 
on board the General Wellesley: some of them shipped on board the 
Gloriant, and others, with Paddy, determined to remain on shore with 
the natives. He added, that Captain Sartori was kind to him, and 
at parting had given him a pistol, cutlass, and an old good-for-nothing 
musket; these, with his sea-chest and a few clothes, were all that he 
possessed. He had now lived forty years among these savages. After 
hearing his whole story, I told him I did not believe a word of it; to 
which he answered, that the main part of it was true, but he might 
have made some mistakes, as he had been so much in the habit of lying 
to the Feejeeans, that he hardly now knew when he told the truth, 
adding that he had no desire to tell any thing but the truth. 
Paddy turned out to be a very amusing fellow, and possessed an 
accurate knowledge of the Feejee character. Some of the whites told 
me that he was more than half Feejee; indeed he seemed to delight in 
showing how nearly he was allied to them in feeling and propensities ; 
and, like them, seemed to fix his attention upon trifles. He gave me 
a droll account of his daily employments, which it would be inappro- 
priate to give here, and finished by telling me the only wish he had 
then, was to get for his little boy, on whom he doated, a small hatchet, 
and the only articles he had to offer for it were a few old hens. On my 
asking him if he did not cultivate the ground, he said at once no, he 
found it much easier to get his living by telling the Feejeeans stories, 
which he could always make good enough for them; these, and the 
care of his two little boys, and his hens, and his pigs, when he had 
any, gave him ample employment and plenty of food. He had lived 
much at Rewa, and until lately had been a resident at Levuka, but 
had, in consequence of his intrigues, been expelled by the white resi- 
dents, to the island of Ambatiki. It appeared that they had unani- 
mously come to the conclusion that if he did not remove, they would 
be obliged to put him to death for their own safety. I could not 
induce Whippy or Tom to give me the circumstances that occasioned 
this determination, and Paddy would not communicate more than 
