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Jamwry. Having nothing further to tnmlaci on lhore, every thing was fent on
1---- ----- 1 board excepting the marquee, at which, with a guard, Mr. Puget remained
for the more eafy communication with the chiefs, fhould they
be inclined to renew their vifits ; as no one perfon o f any diftinftion had
appeared fince the departure o f Pomurrey in the morning. Mr.
Broughton having ftrolled over the river found Whytooa in foft dalliance
with his wife at home, inftead o f being in fearch of the lineni Mr.
Broughton invited them to the marquee, but Whytooa replied he was
“ mattowed." After fome perfuafion he complied, and having come
oppofite the encampment, he requefted fome affurance o f friendihip on
my part; which being complied with, he confented, and having gained
about the middle o f the river, he was compelled by the natives to return.
Another convention how took place; and on Mr. Broughton
propofing to remain with them during Whytooa’s abfence, he came over,
and being foon reconciled after his arrival, to his fituation, he fent a
fervant to defire Mr. Broughton would crofs the river. On this occa-
fion Whytooa’s wife accompanied him, and we afterwards went all on
board to dinner. On my enquiring, he faid Pomurrey and Urripiah
were at Oparre, but would return the inftant Towereroo was taken.
With refpeft to the linen I could gain no fatisfaftory account; and, as I
wifhed to encourage him in the confidence he had manifefted, I did not
think it right to pufh this inquiry further; wilhing to detain him and his
wife, in cafe their imprifonment hereafter Ihould be deemed neeeffary to
effeft our purpofe; but defifted from any further meafures, until I
fhould fee or hear fomething of the other royal brothers. The canoe
and goods we had arrelled the preceding evening now appearing to belong
to a chief o f Ulietea, who could not have had any concern in the
late improper tranfaftions. Juftice dictated its reftoration to the proper
owner, and dire&ions to that effeft were accordingly given.
Monday 23. Neither Pomurrey, nor Urripiah having arrived on monday morning;
Mr. Broughton propofed that Whytooa and his wife, who were Hill with
us, Ihould accompany him to Oparre, in order to procure an interview
with Pomurrey, and learn how our affairs flood in that diftriS. To this,
Whytooa readily agreed, and whilft the boat was preparing for their
conveyance,
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conveyance, the royal females paid us a vifit. They faid, Pomurrey was '792-
ftill at Oparre, but would return to the Ihip the inftant that Towereroo J 2j
could be found. The ladies were immediately informed of Mr. Broughton's
errand, and told, that, until his return, they were to remain on
board. With this arrangement they feemed perfectly fatisfied; and from
their mirth, and joking with each other as to their being carried to fea,
their reception in England, &c. &c. I began to conjeHure that Towereroo
was in reality taken, though it was their pleafure to keep me in fuf-
penfe, We did not long remain in this ftate. About noon, the boat
returned with the three royal brothers, and Towereroo. Mr. Broughton
met them on their way towards the {hips, attended by a fleet of canoes,
laden with every fpecies o f provifions as prefents from the royal family
and our feveral other friends, who all flocked on board with fuch a pro-
fufion of their various valuable .commodities, -that unable to difpofe
of their bounty, feveral laden canoes returned to the fhore.
Pomurrey and Urripiah obferved, on the delivery o f Towereroo, that
they had now reftored every thing in which they confidered I was particularly
interefted, and that it was Whytooa's bufinefs to recover the
linen for Mr. Broughton. Whytooa protefted that, if we could remain
until the morning, it fhould certainly be brought on board ; but as we
had been repeatedly inftrufted to place little reliance on affurances of
this nature, had the wind been favorable, we fhould not have waited to
put his integrity to the teft.
Poatatou, with many other chiefs o f the diftant diftrifts, were made
extremely happy by the prefents which each of them received ; and,
finding we were to fail with the firft favorable wind, took their leave in
the evening, with much apparent regret for our departure ; which was
evidently increafed by their being difappointed of a fécond difplay of
fire-works. From the inordinate love of pleafure which thefe people
poffefs, I do not believe it were poflible to have caufed, by any other
means, fo general and fo great a degree of mortification. A great
many chiefs, and numbers o f the inhabitants, had come from the moft
diftant parts o f the ifland, and from Morea likewife, for no other purpofe
than to gratify their curiofity, and to be prefent at the expefted
exhibition.