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power. When he vifited us while the Chips lay in the 
Cove, confiding in the number of his friends that accom¬ 
panied him, he might think himfelf fafe. But his two 
laft vifits had been made under fuch circumftances, that 
he could no longer rely upon this. We were then at an¬ 
chor in the entrance of the Sound, and at fome diftance 
from any fhore; fo that he could not have any affiftance 
from thence, nor flatter himfelf he could have the means 
of making his efcape, had I determined to detain him. 
And yet, after his firft fears, on being interrogated, were 
over, he was fo far from entertaining any uneafy fenfations, 
that, on feeing a portrait of one of his countrymen hang¬ 
ing up in the cabbin, he defired to have his own portrait 
drawn; and fat till Mr. Webber had finifhed it, without 
marking the leaft impatience. I mult confefs, I admired 
his courage, and was not a little pleafed to obferve the ex¬ 
tent of the confidence he put in me. For he placed his 
whole fafety in the declarations I had uniformly made to 
thofe who folicited his death, That I had always been a 
friend to them all, and would continue fo, unlefs they gave 
me caufe to act otherwife : that as to their inhuman treat¬ 
ment of our people, I fhould think no more of it, the trans¬ 
action having happened long ago, and when I was not 
prefent; but that, if ever they made a fecond attempt of 
that kind, they might reft affured of feeling the weight of 
my refentment. 
For fome time before we arrived at New Zealand, Omai 
had expreffed a defire to take one of the natives with him 
to his own country. We had not been there many days, 
before he had an opportunity of being gratified in this; 
for a youth about Seventeen or eighteen years of age, 
named Taweiharooa, offered to accompany him; and took 
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