cook’s opinion OF MAI. 369 
racter was correct: he appeared to have derived 
no permanent advantage from the voyage he had 
made, the attention he had received, or the civi¬ 
lized society with which he had been associated. 
He soon threw off his European dress, and adopted 
the costume, uncivilized manners, and indolent 
life, of his countrymen. Weakness and vanity, 
together with savage pride, appear to have been 
the most conspicuous traits of character he deve¬ 
loped in subsequent life. 
The horses, included among his presents, appear 
to have been regarded by Mai as mere objects of 
curiosity, and, when occasionally ridden, it was 
to inspire terror or excite admiration in the minds 
of the inhabitants. His implements of war, and 
especially the fire-arms, rendered his aid and co¬ 
operation a desideratum with the king of the 
island, who, in order more effectually to secure 
the advantage of his influence and arms, gave him 
one of his daughters in marriage, and honoured 
him with the name of Paari , (wise or instructed,) 
by which name he is now always spoken of among 
the natives; several of whom still remember him. 
He appears to have passed the remainder of his 
life in inglorious indolence or wanton crime, to 
have become the mere instrument of the caprice 
or cruelty of the king of the island, who not only 
availed himself of the effects of his fire-arms in 
periods of war, but frequently ordered him to shoot 
at a man at a certain distance, in order to see how 
far the musket would do execution ; or to despatch 
with his pistol, in the presence of the king, the 
ill-fated objects of his deadly anger. 
The majority of those whom I have heard speak 
of him, generally mentioned his name with execra¬ 
tion rather than respect; and though some of the 
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