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property, therefore, was still insecure, and the industrious 
cultivator of the land was not sure of reaping the fruits 
of his labour. This was remarkably manifest at the pre¬ 
sent time, when the king of Tahiti, in his anxiety to pay 
for the vessel that had been purchased in his name, after 
making repeated applications to the chiefs for large 
numbers of pigs, prohibited every individual from selling 
to a captain or other person any commodity he might have 
for barter, but required them to bring all to him, in return 
for which he sometimes gave them articles of the most 
trifling value. To remedy this defect, several laws were 
added to those prepared for the people of Huahine, and 
a certain tax, somewhat resembling a poll-tax, proposed, 
by which it was fixed what proportion of the produce of 
the island each individual should furnish for the use of 
the king, and also of the chief of the district in which he 
resided. The remainder was to be inviolably his own, 
for use or disposal. The treatment of oflenders between 
their apprehension and trial, was also regulated. These 
were the principal additions made to the Huahine code. 
The trial by jury had been incorporated in the laws of 
Raiatea. The alterations were approved of by the chiefs 
who had come from Huahine, and were by them shewn 
to Teriitaria, who signified her entire satisfaction in their 
being adopted as the laws of Huahine, At the same time 
she informed the chiefs, that after the approaching meet¬ 
ings, she intended to remove to Huahine, but did not 
wish them on that account to defer the public enactment 
of the laws, whenever it should appear desirable. 
The most important object of our visit being now 
accomplished, we returned to Papeete, intending to pro¬ 
ceed to Eimeo. About noon on the 28th, we embarked 
in our boat, hoisted our sails, and were on the point of 
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