THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
US 
left the fight of the boats fliould give the alarm, and allow 
the man time to efcape to the mountains. But this precau¬ 
tion was unneceffary; for the natives there had got in¬ 
formation of my coming, and were prepared to deliver 
him up. 
I found Harrifon, with the mufquet lying before him, 
fitting between two women, who, the moment that I en¬ 
tered the houfe, rofe up to plead in his behalf. As it was 
highly proper to difeourage fuch proceedings, I frowned 
upon them, and bid them begone. Upon this they burft 
into tears, and walked off. Paha, the Chief of the diftriCt, 
now came with a plantain tree, and a fucking pig, which 
he would have prefented to me, as a peace-offering. I re¬ 
jected it, and ordered him out of my fight; and having em¬ 
barked, with the deferter, on board the firft boat that ar¬ 
rived, returned to the fliips. After this, harmony was 
again reftored. The fellow had nothing to fay in his de¬ 
fence, but that the natives had enticed him away ; and this 
might in part be true, as it was certain, that Paha, and alfo 
the two women above-mentioned, had been at the ftiip the 
day before he deferted. As it appeared, that he had re¬ 
mained upon his poft, till within a few minutes of the time 
when he was to have been relieved, the puniftnnent that I 
inflidted upon him was not very fevere. 
Though we had feparated from Omai, we were ftili 
near enough to have intelligence of his proceedings ; and 
I had defired to hear from him. Accordingly, about a 
fortnight after our arrival at Ulietea, he fent two of his 
people in' a canoe ; who brought me the fatis faCtory intel¬ 
ligence, that he remained undifturbed by the people of the 
Aland, and that every thing went well with him, except 
that his goat had died in kidding. He accompanied this 
Q 2 intelligence, 
1777. 
November. 
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