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POLYNESIAN RESEARCHES. 
I have visited the district only once since 5 and 
although welcomed with every expression of pleasure 
by the people^ I experienced a sensation of melancholy 
interest^ in walking over the garden^ the fences of 
which had been taken down, and a few flourishing 
shrubs only remained, to mark its original situation. 
Most of the valuable plants had been removed by the 
people to their own gardens, as the spot selected by me 
was not one which they would have preferred. A few 
cocoa-nuts which I had planted near the printing-office 
appeared to thrive, as they were protected by a light 
fence round each of the trees. 
The vessel came round, took our goods, and the 
articles belonging to the printing-office, &c., on board, 
and proceeded to Papetoai, where we shipped our cattle. 
On the eighteenth of June, 1818, Mr. Davies, Mr. and 
Mrs. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Orsmond, Mrs. Ellis, and 
myself, accompanied by a number of the principal chiefs, 
sailed from Eimeo to the Leeward Islands. We arrived 
at Huahine late on the evening of the following day, 
and some of our party w^ent on shore, but it was not till 
the morning of the 20 th that we reached the anchor- 
age in Fare harbour. 
Here I looked abroad with new and mingled emo¬ 
tions on the scene in which I was to commence 
my labours, and probably to spend the remainder 
of my life. The clear sky was reflected in the unruffled 
waters of the bay, which was bordered with a fine beach 
strewed with various shells. The luxuriant convolvulus, 
presenting its broad and shining leaves in striking 
contrast with the white coral and sand, spread its vines 
across the beach, even to the margin of the water, over 
which the slender shrub or the flowering tree often 
