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their respective stations, taken in cocoa-nut oil, and such 
other productions of the islands as were marketable at 
Port Jackson, left Tahiti, and touched at Huahine, on 
her way to the colony of New South Wales. Messrs. 
Williams and Threlkeld had availed themselves of the 
visit of the Active, in the month of September, to re¬ 
move with their families to Raiatea, and form a new 
station in that large and important island. Tamatoa 
the king, and his brother, accompanied them, while the 
rest of the chiefs and people of that island followed 
in their boats and canoes. In the Haweis, which left 
Huahine early in December, 1818, Mr. Hayward, from 
Eimeo, proceeded on a voyage to Port Jackson, and 
Mr. and Mrs. Orsmond to Raiatea, while Messrs. Nott, 
Davies, Barlf, and myself, remained at Huahine. 
Our temporary dwelling was scarcely rendered com¬ 
fortable, by partitioning the different rooms with 
bamboo-canes, and covering them with Tahitian cloth, 
w'hen it was necessary to prepare for the erection of a 
printing-office, the supply of books brought from Eimeo 
being found unequal to the increasing demand. Mr. 
Nott was also revising, for the press, the Gospel by 
John, and Mr. Davies had the Gospel of Matthew ready. 
This rendered it expedient to examine the district, that 
we might select the most eligible place for the erection 
of our permanent dwelling, to which we purposed to 
attach the printing-office. 
We were desirous of securing the advantages of gar¬ 
den-ground and water; but in seeking these, we avoided 
obliging the natives to remove from any of those spots 
which they had already appropriated to their own use. 
In this there was not much difficulty, the whole dis¬ 
trict was before us, and but few places, except in the 
