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As foon as the boat reached the beach, Feenou, and 1777. 
fome others, inftantly ftepped out. Young Fattafaihe fol- , ^ une ‘ 
lowing them, was called back by Mareewagee, who now 
paid the heir apparent the fame obeifance, and in the 
fame manner, that I had feen it paid to the king. And 
when old Toobou, and one of the old ladies, had fhewn 
him the fame marks of refpedt, he was fuffered to land. 
This ceremony being over, the old people ftepped from my 
boat, into a canoe, that was waiting to carry them to their 
place of abode. 
I was not forry to be prefent on this occafton, as I was 
thus furnifhed with the moft unequivocal proofs of the fu~ 
preme dignity of Poulaho and his fon, over the other prin¬ 
cipal Chiefs. Indeed, by this time, I had acquired fome 
certain information about the relative fttuations of the fe- 
veral great men, whofe names have been fo often men¬ 
tioned. I now knew, that Mareewagee and old Toobou 
were brothers. Both of them were men of great property 
in the ifland, and feemed to be in high eftimation with the 
people; the former, in particular, had the very honourable 
appellation given to him, by every body, of Mot00a Tonga ; 
that is to fay, Father of Tonga, or of his Country. The 
nature of his relationfbip to the king was alfo no longer a 
fecret to us; for we now underftood, that he was his father- 
in-law ; Poulaho having married one of his daughters, by 
whom he had this fon; fo that Mareewagee was the prince’s 
grandfather. Poulaho’s appearance having fatisfied us, that 
we had been under a miftake, in conftdering Feenou as the 
fovereign of thefe iftands, we had been, at firft, much puz¬ 
zled about his real rank; but that was, by this time, afcer- 
tained. Feenou was one of Mareewagee’s fons; and Too- 
boueitoa was another. 
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