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longing to the printing-office, &c., on board, and 
proceeded to Papetoai, where we shipped our 
cattle. On the eighteenth of June, 1818, Mr 
Davies, Mr. and Mrs. Williams, Mr. and Mrs 
Orsmond, Mrs. Ellis, and myself, accompanied by 
a number of the principal chiefs, sailed from Eimeo 
to the Leeward Islands. We arrived at Huahine 
late on the evening of the following day, and some 
of our party went on shore, but it was not till the 
morning of the 20th that we reached the anchorage 
in Fare harbour. 
Here I looked abroad with new and mingled 
emotions on the scene in which I was to commence 
my labours, and probably to spend the remainder 
of my life. The clear sky was reflected in the 
unruffied waters of the bay, which was bordered 
with a fine beach strewn with shells. The luxu- 
riant convolvulus, presenting its broad and shining. 
leaves in striking contrast with the white coral and 
sand, spread its vines across the beach, even to 
the margin of the water, over which the slender 
shrub or the flowering tree often extended their 
verdant branches, while the groves of stately bread- 
fruit, and the clumps of umbrageous callophyllum, 
or tamanu trees, and the tall and graceful waving 
cocoa-nuts, shaded the different parts of the 
shore. | 
The district of Fa-re, bordermg the harbour of 
the same name, is about a mile and a half, or two 
miles, in length, and reaches from the shore to the 
centre of the island. It is bounded on the south 
by a range of mountains separating it from the 
district of Haapape, and on the north by the small 
district of Buaoa, whence a long, bleak point of 
land, called the Faaao, extending a considerable 
distance into the sea, and covered with tall cocoa- 
