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defired me to come to him in the afternoon, and to bring 
Omai with me. 
Accordingly, a party of us waited upon him at the ap¬ 
pointed time; and we were condu&ed by him to his father, 
in whofe prefence the difpute with Eimeo was agaii\ talked 
over. Being very delirous of deviling fome method to bring 
about an accommodation, I founded the old Chief on that 
head. But we found him deaf to any fuch propofal, and 
fully determined to profecute the war. He repeated the 
folicitations which I had already refilled, about giving them 
my affillance. On our inquiring into the caufe of the war, 
we were told, that, fome years ago, a brother of Waheia- 
dooa, of Tiaraboo, was fent to Eimeo, at the requeft of Ma- 
heine, a popular Chief of that ifland, to be their king; but 
that he had not been there a week before Maheine, having 
caufed him to be killed, fet up for himfelf, in oppolition 
to Tierataboonooe, his lifter’s fon, who became the lawful 
heir; or elfe had been pitched upon, by the people of Ota- 
heite, to fucceed to the government on the death of the 
other. 
1 Towha, who is a relation of Otoo, and Chief of the dif- 
tridl of Tettaha, a man of much weight in the illand, and 
who had been Commander in Chief of the armament fitted 
out againft Eimeo in 1774, happened not to be at Matavai 
at this time ; and, confequently, was not prefent at any of 
thefe confultations. It, however, appeared that he was no 
ftranger to what was tranfadled ; and that he entered with 
more fpirit into the affair than any other Chief. For, early 
in the morning of the ill of September, a meflenger arrived 
from him to acquaint Otoo, that he had killed a man to be 
facrificed to the Eatooa , to implore the affillance of the 
God againft Eimeo. This adt of worlhip was to be per¬ 
formed 
