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1777 . up his refidence on board. I paid little attention to this 
— y _. a t firft? imagining that he would leave us when we were 
about to depart, and after he had got what he could from 
Omai. At length, finding that he was fixed in his refolu- 
tion to go with us, and having learnt that he was the only 
fon of a deceafed Chief, and that his mother, ftill living, 
was a woman much refpedted here, I was apprehenfive that 
Omai had deceived him and his friends, by giving them 
hopes and affurances of his being fent back. I therefore 
caufed it to be made known to them all, that if the young 
man went away with us, he would never return. But this 
declaration feemed to make no fort of impreflion. The af- 
ternoon before we left the Cove, Tiratoutou, his mother, 
came on board, to receive her lafi: prefent from Omai. The 
fame evening, the and Taweiharooa parted, with all the 
marks of tender affection that might be expected between a 
parent and a child, who were never to meet again. But 
fhe faid fire would cry no more; and, fure enough, fhe kept 
her word. For when fhe returned the next morning, to 
take her lafi: farewell of him, all the time fire was on board 
flae remained quite cheerful, and went away wholly un¬ 
concerned. 
That Taweiharooa might be fent away in a manner be¬ 
coming his birth, another youth was to have gone with him 
as his fervant; and, with this view, as we fuppofed, he 
remained on board till we were about to fail, when his 
friends took him afhore. However, his place was fupplied, 
next morning, by another, a boy of about nine or ten 
years of age, named Kokoa. He was prefented to me by 
his own father, who, I believe, would have parted with his 
dog with far lefs indifference. The very little clothing the 
boy had, he ftript him of, and left him as naked as he was 
born. 
