MAI’S RESIDENCE, BERXTANI. 371 
coloured engravings, which were the only objects 
of attraction with the natives. I was told it be¬ 
longed to Paari, or Mai, and hope it was given 
him among the presents from England, although 
no mention whatever is made of a Bible, or any 
other book, among the various articles enumerated 
by those who conveyed him to his native shores. 
Within the limits of the grant made to Captain 
Cook for his friend Mai, some of the Missionaries, 
who in 1809 took shelter in Huahine, after their 
expulsion from Tahiti in 1808, erected their tem¬ 
porary habitations. A few yards distant from the 
spot in which Mai’s house stood, and immediately 
in front of the dark and glossy-leaved shaddock- 
tree planted by Captain Cook, the first building 
for the worship of Jehovah was erected ; and on the 
same spot the first school in Huahine was opened, 
in which the use of letters, and the principles of 
religion, were inculcated. 
Nearly in front of the site of Mai’s dwelling now 
stands the residence of Pohuetea and Teraimano, 
to whom by right of patrimony Beritani belongs. 
It was, when I was last there, in 1824, one of the 
most neat, substantial, and convenient modern 
houses in the settlement, containing two stories 
and eight apartments. The district around, which 
when we arrived was altogether uncultivated, and 
overrun with brushwood growing in wild luxuriance, 
has been cleared; the garden has been again 
enclosed, and planted with many useful vege¬ 
table productions of the tropical regions. It is 
cultivated by its proprietors, who, there is reason 
to hope, are decided Christians. They erected, 
within the precincts of their garden, a beautiful 
but rustic little summer-house or cottage, which 
they call a fare bure huna , or house for hidden 
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