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^ XX ^ ^^^^ ifland, and brought to off Owharree harbour ; the 
j^ipT788 ^^tives appeared perfedly friendly, and conftantly fup- 
plied them with every article except bread-fruit, which 
they faid had failed that feafon : they were very impor- 
tunate for them to go into the harbour, but as Captain 
Sever did not intend to ftay more than a day or two, he 
did not think it worth the trouble. 
In the evening, an elderly chief, who went by the 
name of 'T ittti^ and whom Mr. Watts recollected to have 
frequently feen with Captain Cook, came on board ; he 
confirmed the reports they had heard at Otaheite, and 
told them, that after Omai had got perfedly fettled, he 
found himfelf under the neceffity of purchafing a great 
quantity of cloth, and other necelTaries, for himfelf and 
famiily, of which his neighbours took advantage, and 
made him pay extravagantly for every article he pur- 
chafed ; that he frequently vilited UHatea, and never 
. went empty handed, fo that by thefe means he ex- 
pended much of his treafure : he died at his own 
houfe, as did the New Zealand boys, but in what order 
their deaths had happened, Tutti could not give infor- 
mation. Upon Omai's deceafe, the Uliatea men came 
over and attacked them for his property, alledging that 
as he was a native of their illand they had an un- 
doubted right to it. Tutti faid they carried away a con- 
fiderable part of his remaining property, and particularly 
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