THE PACIFIC OCEAN, 
at Oheitepeha. A number of the natives got together, to 
tafte the firft fruit it bore; but, as the grapes were ftill four, 
they confidered it as little better than poifon, and it was 
unanimoufty determined to tread it under foot. In that 
hate, Omai found it by chance, and was overjoyed at the 
difcovery. For he had a full confidence, that, if he had but 
grapes, he could eafily make wine. Accordingly, he had 
feveral flips cut off from the tree, to carry away with him; 
and we pruned, and put in order, the remains of it. Pro¬ 
bably, grown wife by Omai’s inftrudtions, they may now 
fuffer the fruit to grow to perfection, and not pafs fo hafty 
a fentence upon it again. 
We had not been eight and forty hours at anchor in 
Matavai Bay, before we were vifited by all our old friends, 
whofe names are recorded in the account of my laft voyage. 
Not one of them came empty handed; fo that we had more 
provifions than we knew what to do with. What was ftill 
more, we were under no apprehenfions of exhaufting the 
illand, which prefented to our eyes every mark of the moft 
exuberant plenty, in every article of refrefliment. 
Soon after our arrival here, one of the natives, whom the 
Spaniards had carried with them to Lima, paid us a vifit; 
but, in his external appearance, he was not diftinguifliable 
from the reft of his countrymen. However, he had not 
forgot fome Spanifh words which he had acquired, though 
he pronounced them badly. Amongft them, the moft fre¬ 
quent were, Ji Sennor ; and, when a ftranger was introduced 
to him, he did not fail to rife up and accoft him, as well as 
he could. 
We alfo found here, the young man whom we called 
Oedidee, but whofe real name is Heete-heete. I had carried 
him from Ulietea in 1773, and brought him back in 1774 5 
Vql. II. e after 
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