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A VOYAGE TO 
CHAP. I'ied it with liim wherever he went. After the firft 
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' — ^ — ' fakitations were over, Mr. Watts aflved O'too to ac- 
ju!v,i788. ^Qj^^^p^j^y him to the ihipj to which he readily agreed; 
but previoiiily to his entering the boat he ordered the 
, portrait in, and when he got alongiide the fliip he ob- 
ferved the farp.e ceremony. When on board he appeared 
much pleafed, allied after his old friends, and w^as very 
particular in his enquiries after Gapt, Cook. He vilited 
the fliip between decks, was aftoniflied to fee fo few 
people on board, and the greateft part of them in a de- 
bilitated ftate, and enquired if they had loft any men at 
fea. He acquainted them with the revenge taken by 
the Eimeo people, and afked why they had not brought 
out fome cattle, &:c. He alfo mentioned the death of 
. Omai, and the New Zealand boys, and added, that there 
had been a fkirmilli between the men of Uliatea and 
thofe of Huaheine, in v/hich the former were vicffcorious, 
and that a great part of Omai's property was carried to 
Uliatea. O'too was confiderably improved in his perfon,- 
, and was by much the beft made man of any that they 
faw ; nor was he, as yet, disfigured by the baneful 
efFe6ls of the ava. He preferved his original charadfer 
, in fupplying the fl:iip with provilions of every kind in 
the moft liberal manner ; and w^hen any of the natives 
who had come from a confiderable diftance, begged his 
interceffion with them on board to take their hogs, Scc. 
off their hands, Svhich, on account of the few people they 
, " . hadj 
