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there was an article that I was very glad to see 5 it was 
a large quarto English Bible^ with numerous coloured 
engravings, which were the only objects of attraction 
with the natives. I was told it belonged to Paari^ or 
Mai, and hope it was given him among the presents 
from England, although no mention whatever is made 
of a Bible, or any other book, among the various articles 
enumerated by those who conveyed him to his native 
shores. 
Within the limits of the grant made to Captain Cook 
for his friend Mai, some of the Missionaries, who in 
1809 took shelter in Huahine, after their expulsion from 
Tahiti in 1808, erected their temporary habitations. A 
few yards distant from the spot in which Mai's house 
stood, and immediately in front of the dark and glossy¬ 
leaved shaddock-tree planted by Captain Cook, the first 
building for the worship of Jehovah was erected 3 and 
on the same spot, the first school in Huahine was opened, 
in which the use of letters, and the principles of religion, 
were inculcated. 
Nearly in front of the site of Mai's dwelling now 
stands the residence of Pohuetea and Teraimano, to 
whom by right of patrimony Beritani belongs. It was, 
when I was last there, in 1824, one of the most neat, 
substantial, and convenient modern houses in the settle- 
ment, containing two stories, and eight apartments. 
The district around, which when we arrived was 
altogether uncultivated, and overrun with brushwood 
growing in wild luxuriance, has been cleared; the gar¬ 
den has been again enclosed, and planted with all that 
is useful in the vegetable productions of tropical regions. 
It is cultivated by its proprietors, who, there is reason 
to hope, are decided Christians. They erected, within 
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