THE PACIFIC OCEAN, 
inquiries, as to the circumflances attending it, may amufe 
the reader; and I give it. as a fpecimen of the hiftory of 
our friends, in this part of the world, as related to us p by 
themfelves. 
Ulietea and Otaha, which adjoins it, lived long in friend- 
fhip, or, as the natives exprefs it, were conlidered as two 
brothers, infeparable by any interefled views* They alfo 
admitted the illand of Huaheine as their friend, though not 
fo intimate. Otaha, however, like a traitor, leagued with 
Bolabola, and they refolved jointly to attack Ulietea; whole 
people called in their friends of Huaheine, to afliB them 
againft thefe two powers. The men of Bolabola were en¬ 
couraged by a prieBefs, or rather prophetefs, who foretold, 
that they fhould be fuccefsful; and, as a proof of the cer¬ 
tainty of her prediction, fhe delired, that a man might be 
fent to the lea, at a particular place, where, from a great 
depth, a Hone would afcend. He went, accordingly, in a ca¬ 
noe to the place mentioned; and was going to dive to fee 
where this Hone lay, when, behold, it Baited up to the fur- 
face fpontaneoully into his hand ! The people were aBo- 
niflied at the fight: the Bone was depofited as facred in the 
houfe of the Eatooa ; and is Bill preferved at Bolabola, as a 
proof of this woman’s influence with the divinity. Their 
fpirits being thus elevated with the hopes of victory, the 
canoes of Bolabola fet out to engage thofe of Ulietea and 
Huaheine, which being Brongly faflened together with 
ropes, the encounter laBed long, and would probably, not- 
withBanding the prediction and the miracle, have ended in 
the overthrow of the Bolabola fleet, if that of Otaha had not, 
in the critical moment, arrived. This turned the fortune 
13.1 
* 777- 
December. 
* For this, as for many other particulars about thefe people, we are indebted to Mr. 
Anderfon. 
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