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had been left at Otaheite, which would foon multiply, and 
furnifh a fufficient number for the ufe of all the iflands in 
the neighbourhood. He then lignified to them, that it was 
my earned: requeft, in return for all my friendly offices, that 
they would give him a piece of land, to build a houfe upon, 
and to raife provilions for himfelf and fervants; adding, 
that, if this could not be obtained for him in Huaheine, 
either by gift or by purchafe, I was determined to carry 
him to Ulietea, ^and fix him there.” 
Perhaps I have here made a better fpeech for my friend, 
than he actually delivered; but thefe were the topics I dic¬ 
tated to him. I obferved, that what he concluded with, 
about carrying him to Ulietea, feemed to meet with the ap¬ 
probation of all the Chiefs; and I inftantly faw the reafon. 
Omai had, as I have already mentioned, vainly flattered 
himfelf, that I meant to ufe force in reftoring him to his 
father’s lands in Ulietea, and he had talked idly, and with¬ 
out any authority from me, on this fubje6l, to fome of the 
prefent aflembly; who dreamed of nothing lefs than a hof- 
tile invafion of Ulietea, and of being affifted by me to drive 
the Bolabola men out of that ifland. It was of confequence, 
therefore, that I ffiould undeceive them; and, in order to 
this, I fignified, in the moft peremptory manner, that I nei¬ 
ther would affift them in fuch an enterprize, nor fuffer it 
to be put in execution, while I was in their feas; and that, 
if Omai fixed himfelf in Ulietea, he muft be introduced as 
a friend, and not forced upon the Bolabola men as their 
conqueror. 
This declaration gave a new turn to the fentiments of the 
council. One of the Chiefs immediately exprefled himfelf 
to this effect: u That the whole ifland of Huaheine, and 
every thing in it, were mine; and that, therefore, I might 
3 give 
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