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Indians, but between the tribes ; they mixed with one ano- 

 ther about our village in the most friendly manner, and the 

 different chiefs with the priests came daily to visit me. 

 They were all much delighted that a general peace had 

 been brought about, that they might now all visit the differ- 

 ent parts of the island in safety ; and many of the oldest 

 men assured me that they had never before been out of 

 the valley in which they were born. They repeatedly 

 expressed their astonishment and admiration that I should 

 have been enabled to effect so much in so short a time, and 

 that I should have been able to extend my influence so far 

 as to give them such complete protection, not only in the 

 valley of Tieuhoy, but among the tribes with which they 

 had been at war from the earliest periods, and had hereto- 

 fore been considered their natural enemies. 1 informed 

 them that I should shortly leave them, and should return 

 again at the expiration of a year. I exhorted them to re» 

 main at peace with one another, and assured them that if 

 they should be at war on my return, I should punish the 

 tribes most in fault. They all gave me the strongest assu- 

 rances of a disposition to remain on good terms, not only 

 with me and my people, but with one another. The 

 chiefs, the priests, and the principal persons of the tribes, 

 affected to be very solicitous of forming a relationship with 

 me by an exchange of names with some of my family. 

 Some wished to bear the name of my brother, my son-in- 

 law, my son, my brother-in-law, &lc. and when all the male 

 stock were exhausted, they as anxiously solicited the names 

 of the other sex, and as many bore the names of the fe- 

 males of my family as of the males. The name of my 

 son, however, was more desired than any other, and many 

 old men, whose long gray beards rendered their appear- 

 ance venerable, were known by the name of Pickineenee 

 Opotee. The word pickineenee having by some means 

 been introduced among them by the sailors of the ship? 

 which have touched there. 



