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POLYNESIAN RESEARCHES. 
The Haweis having conveyed the Mission¬ 
aries to 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 them¬ 
selves of the visit of the Active, in the month of 
September, to remove 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 Jack- 
son, and Mr. and Mrs. Orsmond to Raiatea, while 
Messrs. Nott, Davies, Barff, and myself, remained 
at Huahine. 
Our temporary dwelling was scarcely rendered 
comfortable, by partitioning the different rooms 
with bamboo-canes, and covering them with 
Tahitian cloth, when 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 
garden-ground and water; but in seeking these, 
we avoided obliging the natives to remove from 
any of those spots which they had already appro- 
