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©f very great value. I faid all that I could to perfuade him 
not to produce it now, wifhing him to keep it on board till 
an opportunity fhould offer of prefenting it to Otoo, with 
his own hands. But he had too good an opinion of the 
honefty and fidelity of his countrymen to take my advice. 
Nothing would ferve him, but to carry it afhore, on this oc- 
cafion, and to give it to Waheiadooa, to be by him forward¬ 
ed to Otoo, in order to its being added to the royal maro. 
He thought, by this management, that he fhould oblige 
both Chiefs ; whereas he highly difobliged the one, whofe 
favour was of the moft confequence to him, without gain¬ 
ing any reward from the other. What I had forefeen hap¬ 
pened. For Waheiadooa kept the maro for himfelf, and 
only fent to Otoo a very fmall piece of feathers; not the 
twentieth part of what belonged to the magnificent pre- 
fent. 
On the 19th, this young Chief made me a prefent of ten 
or a dozen hogs, a quantity of fruit, and fome cloth. In 
the evening, we played off fome fireworks, which both 
aftonifhed and entertained the numerous fpedtators. 
This day, fome of our gentlemen, in their walks, found, 
what they were pleafed to call, a Roman Catholic chapel. 
Indeed, from their account, this was not to be doubted; for 
they defcribed the altar, and every other conflituent part of 
fuch a place of worfhip. However, as they mentioned, at the 
fame time, that two men, who had the care of it, would not 
fuffer them to go in, I thought that they might be miflaken, 
and had the curiolity to pay a vifit to it myfelf. The fup- 
pofed chapel proved to be a toopapaoo , in which the remains 
of the late Waheiadooa lay, as it were, in Rate. It was in a 
pretty large houfe, which was inclofed with a low pallifade. 
The toopapaoo was uncommonly neat, and refembled one 
yol. 11. d of 
1777. 
Auguft, 
Tuefday 19. 
