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1773- tisfaflion by his behaviour among us. Omai has moll cer-
sepamben ta£njy a very g00(j underftanding, quick parts, and honeft
Tuetday 7. prindples. he has a ^tuml good behaviour, which rendered
him acceptable to the bell company, and a proper degree
of pride, which taught him to avoid the fociety of
perfons of inferior rank. He has paffions of the fame kind
as other young men, but has judgment enough not to indulge
them in any improper excefs. I do not imagine that
he has any dillike to liquor, and if he had fallen into company
where the perfon who drank the moll, met with the
moll approbation, I have no doubt, but that he would have
endeavoured to gain the applaufe of thofe with whom he
aflociated ; but fortunately for him, he perceived that drinking
was very little in ufe but among inferior people, and as
he was very watchful into the manners and condudt of the
perfons of rank who honoured him with their protection,
he was fober and modeft, and I never heard that, during the
whole time of his Hay in England, which was two years, he
ever once was difguifed with wine, or ever Ihewed an inclination
to go beyond the firidteft rules of moderation.
Soon after his arrival in London, the Earl of Sandwich,
the firft Lord of the Admiralty, introduced him to his Mayfly
at Kew, when he met with a moll gracious reception,
and imbibed the ftrongeft impreffion of duty and gratitude
to that great and amiable prince, which I am perfuaded he
will preferve to the lateft moment of his life. During his
flay among us he was carefied by many of the principal nobility,
and did nothing to forfeit the elteem of any one of
them; but his principal patrons were the Earl of Sandwich,
Mr. Banks, and Dr. Solander; the former probably thought
it a duty of his office to proteft and countenance an inhabitant
tant of that hofpitable country, where the wants and diflrelTes
of thofe in his department had been alleviated and fupplied
in the moft ample manner; the others, as a teftimony of
their gratitude for the generous reception they had met with
during their refidence in his country. It is to be obferved,
that though Omai lived in the midft of amufements during
his refidence in England, his return to his native country
was always in his thoughts, and though he was not impatient
to go, he exprefled a fatisfaftion as the time of his return
approached. He embarked with mein the Refolution,
when fhe was fitted out for another voyage, loaded with pre-
fents from his feveral friends, and full of gratitude for the
kind reception and treatment he had experienced among us.
C H A P XIII.
A rriva l (Vt, and Departure o f the Ships from , Ulietea :
with an Account o f what happened there, and o f Oedidee,
one o f the Natives, coming away in the Refolution.
T"' H E chief was no fooner gone, than we made fail for
Ulietea (where I intended to flop a Tew days). Arriving
off the harbour of Ohamaneno at the clofe of the
day, we fpent the night making ffiort boards. It was dark,
but we were Efficiently guided by the fiffiers lights on the
reefs and fhores of the ifles. The next morning, after Wetiner ,,
making a few trips, we gained the entrance of the harbour;
and, as the wind blew diredtly out, I fent a boat to lie in
foundings, that we might know when to anchor. As foon
as the fignal was made by her, we borrowed clofe to the
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