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article worth the carrying from the ifland. This neceffa- 
rily drew upon him the ill-will of the principal Chiefs; 
who found that they could not procure, from any one in 
the fhips, fuch valuable prefents as Omai bellowed on the 
lowefl of the people, his companions. 
As foon as we had dined, a party of us accompanied Otoo 
to Oparre, taking with us the poultry, with which we were 
to flock the ifland. They conlilled of a peacock and hen 
(which Lord Befborough was fo kind as to fend me, for 
this purpofe, a few days before I left London); a turkey 
cock and hen; one gander, and three geefe ; a drake, and 
four ducks. All thefe I left at Oparre, in the polfellion of 
Otoo; and the geefe and ducks began to breed, before we 
failed. We found there, a gander, which the natives told 
us, was the fame that Captain Wallis had given to Oberea 
ten years before; feveral goats ; and the Spanilh bull, 
whom they kept tied to a tree, near Otoo’s houfe. I never 
faw a finer animal of his kind. He was now the property 
of Etary, and had been brought from Oheitepeha to this 
place, in order to be fhipped for Bolabola. But it paffes my 
comprehenfion, how they can contrive to carry him in one 
of their canoes. If we had not arrived, it would have been 
of little confequence who had the property of him, as, with¬ 
out a cow, he could be of no ufe; and none had been left 
with him. Though the natives told us, that there were 
cows on board the Spanifh fhips, and that they took them 
away with them, I cannot believe this; and fhould rather 
fuppofe, that they had died in the paffage from Lima. The 
next day, I fent the three cows, that I had on board, to this 
bull; and the bull, which I had brought, the horfe and 
mare, and flieep, I put afhore at Matavai. 
Having thus difpofed of thefe pafTengers, I found myfelf 
lightened 
1777. 
Auguft. 
Monday 25, 
