POLYNESIAN RESEARCHES. 
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Although most of the Missionaries returned to the 
1812 ^ yet their efforts in Tahiti were not resumed till 
the close of 1817^ so that on my arrival I found no one 
here. Hence^ I have been induced to give the foregoing 
brief historical sketch of the leading facts connected 
with the establishment and termination of the first 
Mission to Tahiti^ in connexion with my first visit to 
Matavai. 
