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captain had come over in his boat, and, anxious 
to welcome our newly arrived friends, I accompa¬ 
nied 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 oppor¬ 
tunity 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 deputation, read the 
letters from the Directors, acknowledged the ap¬ 
pointment 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 plea¬ 
santly 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 har¬ 
bour in safety on the fourteenth. 
The year 1821 was an eventful period in the 
political annals of Huahine, not only in reference 
to the promulgation of the new code of laws, 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 government of Huahine. This 
event took place very soon after my return from 
Tahiti. 
The circumstances preceding his death were 
distressing. 
