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leftation. Their women came over, and fat down on the 
banks clofe by us, and at noon we prevailed on fome of 
the men to bring hogs and roots for our people, and to 
drefs them for us. As foon as we had left the beach, they 
came down to the fea-lide, and one of them threw a ftone 
at us; but his conduit feeming to be highly difapproved 
of by all the reft, we did not think it proper to Ihew any 
refentment. 
The next day, we completed our watering, without meet- Wednef. p 
ing with any material difficulty. On our return to the fhips, 
we found that feveral Chiefs had been on board, and had 
made excufes for the behaviour of their countrymen, attri¬ 
buting their riotous conduit to the quarrels which fub- 
ftfted at that time amongft the principal people of the ifland, 
and which had occafioned a general want of order and fub- 
ordination amongft them. The government of Atooi was 
in difpute between Toneoneo, who had the fupreme power 
when we were here laft year, and a boy named Teavee. 
They are both, by different fathers, the grandfons of Per- 
reeorannee, king of Woahoo, who had given the govern¬ 
ment of Atooi to the former, and that of Oneeheow to the 
latter. The quarrel had arifen about the goats we had left 
at Oneeheow the laft year ; the right of property in which 
was claimed by Toneoneo, on the pretence of that ifland’s 
being a dependency of his. The friends of Teavee infill¬ 
ing on the right of poffeflion, both parties prepared to main¬ 
tain their preten lions by force; and, a few days before our 
arrival, a battle had been fought, in which Toneoneo had 
been worfted. The conference of this vi£tory was likely 
to affe6l Toneoneo in a much deeper manner than by the 
mere lofs of the objedls in difpute; for the mother of 
Teavee, having married a fecond hulband, who was a Chief 
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