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A VOYAGE TO 
1777. fently acquainted them with what we had done at Eimeo, 
t tr \ and multiplied the number of houfes and canoes that we 
had deftroyed, by ten at leaft. I was not forry for this ex¬ 
aggerated account; as I faw, that it made a great impref- 
fion upon all who heard it; fo that I had hopes it would 
induce the inhabitants of this ifland to behave better to us, 
than they had done during my former vifits. 
While I was at Otaheite, I had learned that my old friend 
Oree was no longer the Chief of Huaheine; and that, at 
this time, he relided at Ulietea. Indeed, he never had been 
more than regent during the minority of Taireetareea, the 
prefent Earee rahie ; but he did not give up the regency, till 
he was forced. His two fons, Opoony and Towha, were the 
firft who paid me a vilit, coming on board before the fhip 
was well in the harbour, and bringing a prefent with 
them* 
Our arrival brought all the principal people of the illand 
Monday 13. m our fhips, 'on the next morning, being the 13th. This 
was juft what I wifhed, as it was high time to think of fet¬ 
tling Omai; and the prefence of thefe Chiefs, I guefted, 
would enable me to do it in the rnoft fatisfaftory manner. 
He now feemed to have an inclination to eftablifh himfelf 
at Ulietea; and if he and I could have agreed about the 
mode of bringing that plan to bear, I fhould have had no 
objection to adopt it. His father had been difpoffefted by 
the men of Bolabola, when they conquered Ulietea, of fome 
land in that ifland ; and I made 110 doubt of being able to 
get it reftored to the fon in an amicable manner. For that 
purpofe it was neceflary, that he fhould be upon good terms 
with thofe who now were mafters of the ifland; but he was 
too great a patriot to liften to any fuch thing; and was 
vain enough to fuppofe, that I would reinftate him in bis 
forfeited 
