Our arrival was foon' known, and we were early vilited by many e f
our former friends and acquaintances. Amongft the number were the
two young women I had brought from Nootka and fettled here; during
our late abfence they had been treated with great kindnefs and civility,
yet they were both very apprehenfive that, on our finally quitting
thefe feas, the attentive behaviour they had hitherto experienced
would be difcontinued. I however embraced the firft opportunity of
obtaining from all the principal chiefs the moll folem-n. aftiirances. of the
contrary.
We found Enemo, who had now changed his-name to Wakea,. Hill alive,
and though in a fomewhat better Hate o f . health than when, we lalt left
him, he was yet in a moll deplorably emaciated condition.
Since our late departure, Enemo had attempted to acquire the fupreme
authority in the government of thefe iflands, independent of Titeeree and
Taio. T o effefl this object he had been affilled by Mr. Kendrick’s people,
and the reft of the European and American renegadoes.; in whofe
fupport and knowledge in the ufe of fire-arms he had placed the great-
eft reliance, and had been induced to declare and confider his independency
as certain. Thefe proceedings foon reached the ear of Titeeree,
who fent a chief and a party of men to inquire into the caufe of fo hidden
an alteration, and to know if it were countenanced by the; chiefs
and people of the illand, amongft whom the regent had not been confi-
dered as very popular. But the intentions of thefe unfortunate people
being fuppofedtobe hoftile to the intereftor views of Enemo, they were
met as they approached the fhore, and, without any previous inquiry
into the nature of their errand, were: oppofed by a fmall party of
Enema’s adherents conduced by the renegadoes, who, with their muf-
kets drove them with great ftaughter from the illand, and purfued them
in their flight until they left very few to relate the unfortunate iffue of
their embaffy, to Titeeree-, and the untimely fate of thofe who had fallen,
to their inquiring relations and friends. This melancholy event would
not, moll probably, have happened, had not thefe ftrangers advifedand
aflifted in the perpetration of this diabolical and unprovoked barbarity ;
in extenuation of which they plead, that they were compelled to ail this
favage
favage part in order to preferve the good opinion of, and keep themfelves ^794-
in favor with, the chief. '---- -—
The Butterworth arriving at Woahoo Ihortly after the return of this
unfortunate expedition, Titeeree folicited Mr. Brown to take him to At-
towai for the purpofe of effefling, in an amicable way, an accommodation
with this rebellious-chief. With this Mr. Brown complied, and after
an explanatory interview on board his (hip, all matters werecompro-
mifed to the mutual, fatisfailion of both parties ; and lince that period
the illand has enjoyed tranquillity, though it Hill remained under the
government of Enemo as regent.
But to return. We received an early vifit from Enemo and Tamooerrie,
accompanied only by a few chiefs, but by a great number of women,
who were, for the moll part, of fome confequence, and attendants on his
court. From the regent and prince I received a prefent of a few indifferent
hogs, though, according to their affertions, they were fome of
the belt on the illand. The Hock of thefe animals, they faid, by the great
demand from the trading veffels for them for fome time pall, had been
much reduced ; and judging from the fmall number that were brought for
fale, we had no reafon to diferedit their information. A fupply of vegetables
was what we had principally depended upon procuring here, and in
this expefilation it appeared we were likely to be more fuccefsful; though
the yams, by far the bell fpecies for fea ftore, were alfo very fcarce.
During the afternoon the trade wind blew a very ftrong gale ; it moderated
for a few hours in the evening, but in the night was attended by
heavy gulls from the n.n.e. A continuance of this weather, although it
did not prevent, much retarded the natives, in their paffage from the fhore
to the Ihips with the fupplies we required, until the afternoon of the
n t h ; when it becoming more moderate, I paid my refpects to the regent
at his refidence on Ihore, in confequence of an invitation to an
evening amufement, ■ hdiich, from the defeription of it by the natives, was
very different from thofe p had before attended.
. Having been difappointed in feeing either Titeeree or Taio, I took this
opportunity of depofiting with Enemo the breeding Iheep I had intended
for thofe chiefs ; giving him to underftand, that in proportion as they
L 2 multiplied