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friends, I accompanied him in his return to the ship. 
On reaching the Tuscan, we were happy to see Messrs. 
Jones, Armitage, and Blossom, with their wives, and 
afterwards proceeding to the shore, had an opportunity 
of greeting the arrival of the deputation. 
The next morning the ship proceeded to Papeete ; and, 
in the forenoon of the same day, Messrs. Williams and 
Darling, having returned from Eimeo, we met the de¬ 
putation, read the letters from the Board of Directors, 
acknowledged the appointment of the deputation as 
a proof of their attachment, and expressed our sense 
of their kindness in forwarding supplies. 
The letters they had brought, and the accounts of 
their intercourse with our friends, were cheering ^ and 
after spending upwards of a week very pleasantly in 
their society, I returned to Eimeo in my own boat, Mr. 
and Mrs. Williams, and Mrs. Ellis, having sailed to 
Huahine a week before, in the Westmoreland. Contrary 
winds detained me another week at Eimeo, during which 
I visited Pomare. On the 12th of October we set sail, 
and, after passing two nights at sea, reached Fare harbour 
in safety on the fourteenth. 
The year 1821 was an eventful period in the political 
annals of Huahine, not only in reference to the pro¬ 
mulgation of the new code of laws, and the resistance 
made to their enforcement, but also in regard to the 
death of Taaroarii, the king’s only son, the chief of Sir 
Charles Sanders’ Island, and the heir to the govern¬ 
ment of Huahine. This event took place very soon after 
my return from Tahiti, 
Soon after our return from Tahiti, the indisposition of 
Mr. and Mrs. Williams required a suspension of their 
exertions in Raiatea, and a visit to New South Wales. 
