134 ' QUEEN POMAEE. 
hospitality, she appears to have consulted her 
own kind disposition, and also to have en- 
deavoured to fulfil the promises given by her 
father, the late King Pom are" who had pro- 
mised them welcome and protection in case 
of need. Nor was this good feeling confined 
to the Queen. Much regard was generally 
shown by the Otaheitans, who sought out 
with diligence, whether there might not be 
relations among their guests. In one in- 
stance a woman came a considerable distance, 
and discovered in one of the four remaining 
women a long-absent sister. 
The fact of Queen Pomare" having been 
engaged in a troublesome civil war at the 
time of the visit of the Islanders, places her 
kindness and attention to them in a still 
more pleasing light. 
This is the Queen Pomare", who, early in 
1843, complained to her Majesty, Queen 
Victoria, of the proceedings of the French, 
in threatening her peace and government. 
There is much pathos and simplicity in the 
Otaheitan Queen's mode of address to her 
" Sister and Friend." The following are ex- 
tracts from her letter literally translated : 
