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illands iince Capt. Cook : therefore, they concealed his c ir a p, 
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death, and Capt. Sever made Oediddee a prefentj as v__,,_!L/ 
July I " y 3 
coming from Capt. Cook. Oediddee confirmed the re- ' 
port of the cattle, &c. being deftroyed by Maheine, and 
hkewife informed them that Omai, and the two New 
Zealand boys had been dead a confiderable time through 
illnefs, and that one horfe only was alive at Huaheine, 
but they could not learn any further particulars from 
him. . ' 
In the evening of the 13th, a melTenger came on Sunday 13. 
board with a prefent from O'too of a fmall pig, a dog, 
and fome vvhite cloth, and intimated that he would be 
at Matavai tlie next day. Early in the next morning Monday 14. 
but few canoes came off to the fliip, and the natives 
were obferved aflembling on the fliore in prodigious 
numbers : foon afterwards, a canoe came alongfide and 
informed them that O'too was on the beach ; on this, 
the Captain and Mr. Watts v/ent on fliore immediately, 
and found him furrounded by an amazing concourfe of 
people, amonglL whom were feveral w^omen cutting their 
foreheads very much with tlie fliark's tooth, but what 
both furprifed and pleafed them very much, was, to fee 
a man carrying the portrait of Captain Cook, drawn by 
Webber in 1777. Notwithftanding fo much time had 
elapfed fince the pi6lure was drawn, it had received no 
injury^ and they were informed that O'too always car- 
H h ried 
