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A VOYAGE TO 
* ill' after he had vifited the Friendly Iflands, New Zealand, 
t ', i Eafter Ifland, and the Marquefes, and been on board my 
Ihip, in that extenfive navigation, about feven months. He 
was, at leaft, as tenacious of his good breeding, as the man 
who had been at Lima; and yes, Sir , or if you pleafe , Sir, 
were as frequently repeated by him, as ft Sennor, was by 
the other. Heete-heete, who is a native of Bolabola, had 
arrived in Otaheite, about three months before, with no 
other intention, that we could learn, than to gratify his cu- 
riofity, or, perhaps, fome other favourite palfion; which 
are, very often, the only objedfs of the purfuit of other 
travelling gentlemen. It was evident, however, that he 
preferred the modes, and even garb, of his countrymen, 
to ours. For, though I gave him fome clothes, which 
our Admiralty Board had been pleafed to fend for his 
ufe (to which I added a cheft of tools, and a few other ar¬ 
ticles, as a prefent from myfelf), he declined wearing them, 
after a few days. This inftance, and that of the perfon 
who had been at Lima, may be urged as a proof of the 
ftrong propenlity natural to man, of returning to ha¬ 
bits acquired at an early age, and only interrupted by acci¬ 
dent. And, perhaps, it may be concluded, that even 
Omai, who had imbibed almoft the whole Englifh man¬ 
ners, will, in a very fhort time after our leaving him, like 
Oedidee, and the viliter of Lima, return to his own native 
garments. 
Wednef. vj. In the morning of the 27th, a man came from Oheite- 
peha, and told us, that two Spanifh fhips had anchored in 
that bay the night before; and, in confirmation of this in¬ 
telligence, he produced a piece of coarfe blue cloth, which, 
he faid, he got out of one of the Ihips ; and which, indeed, 
to appearance, was almoft quite new. He added, that Ma- 
teema 
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