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nity to take the key of the irons out of the binnacle- 
drawer, where he had feen it put, and fet himfelf at li¬ 
berty. This efcape convinced me, that my people ha’d been 
very remifs in their night-duty; which made it necefiary 
to punifh thofe who were now in fault, and to eftablifh 
fome new regulations to prevent the like negligence for 
the future. I was not a little pleafed to hear, afterward, 
that the fellow who efcaped, had tranfported himfelf to 
Ulietea; in this, feconding my views of putting him a fe- 
cond time in irons. 
As foon as Omai was fettled in his new habitation, I be¬ 
gan to think of leaving the illand; and got every thing off 
from the fhore, this evening, except the horfe and mare, 
and a goat big with kid; which were left in the pofiefiion 
of our friend, with whom we were now finally to part. I 
alfo gave him a boar and two fows of the Englilh breed; 
and he had got a fow or two of his own. The horfe covered 
the mare while we were at Otaheite ; fo that I confider the 
introduction of a breed of horfes into thefe illands, as likely 
to have fucceeded, by this valuable prefent. 
The hiftory of Omai will, perhaps, interefi: a very nu¬ 
merous clafs of readers, more than any other occurrence of 
N a voyage, the objects of which do not, in general, promife 
much entertainment. Every circumftance, therefore, which 
may ferve to convey a fatisfactory account of the exact 
fituation in which he was left, will be thought worth pre- 
ferving; and the following particulars are added, to com¬ 
plete the view of his domeftic eftablifhment. He had picked 
up at Otaheite four or five 'Toutous ; the two New Zealand 
youths remained with him; and his brother, and fome others, 
joined him at Huaheine: fo that his family confifted already 
of eight or ten perfons; if that can be called a family, to 
which 
1777. 
October. 
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