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A VOYAGE TO 
SI" commodities; all which the natives had the dexterity to 
—j ifeal from them, in the courfe of their expedition. This 
affair was likely to he attended with inconvenient confe- 
quences. For, our plundered travellers, upon their return, 
without confulting me, employed Omai to complain to 
the king of the treatment they had met with. He, not 
knowing what ftep I fliould take, and, from what had 
already happened, fearing left I might lay him again 
Monday 23. under reftraint, went off early the next morning. His 
example was followed by Feenou; fo that we had not a 
Chief, of any authority, remaining in our neighbourhood. 
I was very much difpleafed at this, and reprimanded Omai 
for having prefumed to meddle. This reprimand put him 
upon his mettle to bring his friend Feenou back; and he 
fucceeded in the negociation; having this powerful argu¬ 
ment to urge, that he might depend upon my ufing no 
violent meafures to oblige the natives to reftore what had 
been taken from the gentlemen. Feenou, trailing to this 
declaration, returned toward the evening; and, encouraged 
by his reception, Poulaho favoured us with his company 
the day after. 
Tuefday 24. Both thefe Chiefs, upon this occaffon, very juftly ob- 
ferved to me, that, if any of my people, at any time, wanted 
to go into the country, they ought to be ‘acquainted with 
it; in which cafe they would fend proper people along with 
them; and then they would be anfwerable for their fafety. 
And I am convinced, from experience, that, by taking this 
very reafonable precaution, a man and his property may be 
as fafe among thefe iflanders, as in other parts of the more 
civilized world. Though I gave myfelf no trouble about 
the recovery of the things ftolen upon this occaffon, moft 
of them, through Feenou’s interpofftion, were recovered; 
except 
