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already in circulation among the chiefs and people^ he 
could not consent to the prosecution of the manufacture 
of sugar, &c., excepting on a very limited scale. Pomare 
was not hasty in forming his decision on any matter 
of importance, and by no means precipitate in his 
measures; but on this occasion he appears to have 
been altogether uninfluenced by that temperate delibera¬ 
tion, and judicious policy, which he generally manifested 
in matters tending to improve the condition of the peo¬ 
ple, and increase the national resources. 
The Missionaries also appear to have been so strongly 
influenced by the king’s communication, that, instead of 
endeavouring to remove his objections, by persuading 
him to allow the trial to be fairly made, and then 
act accordingly, they deemed it expedient, that so 
far as they, or the Society by which the machinery 
had, at great expense, been sent out, were concerned, 
it should be at once discontinued. Accordingly, on the 
14th of May, in order to satisfy the king, and quiet 
the minds of the people,” they advised Mr. Gyles to 
return to New South Wales by the first conveyance.” 
Shortly after this decision, communications from 
England required a general meeting of the Missionaries 
from the several stations; and Messrs. Williams, Barff, 
and myself, went up from the Leeward Islands to 
Tahiti and Eimeo. By the same conveyance Mr. and 
Mrs. Nott removed to Tahiti, where Mr. Nott has since 
laboured, regularly in Matavai, or the adjacent district 
of Pare. We were detained there about a fortnight; 
during which period we received from Mr. Gyles much 
information on the culture of the plant, and the manu¬ 
facture of sugar. Before we left, Mr Gyles very oblig¬ 
ingly had a quantity of cane bruised and boiled, that. 
