1777- Thus equipped, on our landing, w e firfl: vifited E ta ry ;
Aug-ft' • who, carried on a hand-barrow, attended us to a large
houfe, where he was fet d ow n ; and w e feated ourfelves on
each fide o f him. I caufed a piece o f Tongataboo cloth to
be fpread out before us, on w h ich I laid the prefcnts I intended
to make. Prefently the yo u n g C h ie f came, attended
b y his mother, and feveral principal men, who all feated
themfelves, at the other end o f the cloth, fa c in g us. Then
a man, who fat by me, made a fpeech, confifting o f fhort and
feparate fen ten ces; part o f w hich was diitated by thofe
about him. He was anfwered by one from the oppofite
fide, near the Chief. Etary fpoke next ; then Om a i; and
both o f them were anfwered from the fame quarter. The fe
orations were entirely about m y arrival, and connections
with them. The perfon who fpoke laft, told me, amorigft
other things, that the men o f Reema, that is, the Spaniards,
had defired them not to fuffer me to come into Oheitepeha
Bay, i f I ihould return any more to the ifland, fo r that it
belonged to th em ; but that they were fo fa r from payin g
any regard to this requeft, that he was authorized now to
make a formal furrender o f the province o f Tiaraboo to me,
and o f every thing in it; w h ich marks ve ry plainly, that
thefe people are no ftrangers to the policy o f accommodating
themfelves to prefent circumftances. At length, the y ou n g
Ch ief was directed, by his attendants, to come and embrace
m e ; and, by w ay o f confirming this treaty o f . friend-
fhip, we exchanged names.' The ceremony being clofed,
he and his friends accompanied me on board to dinner.
Omai had prepared a maro, compofed o f red and ye llow
feathers, which he intended for Otoo, the k in g o f the whole
ifland i and, confidering where we were, it was a prefent
o f
o f ve ry great value. I faid all that I could to perfuade him
not to p roduce it n ow, w iih in g h im to keep it on board till an
opportunity ihould offer o f prefenting it to Otoo, with his
own hands. But he had too good an opinion o f the honefty
and fidelity o f his countrymen to take m y advice. Nothing
wou ld ferve him, but to carry it ailiore, on this occafion,
and to giv e it to Waheiadooa, to be b y him forwarded to
Otoo, in order to its being added to the royal maro. He thought,
b y this management, that, he ihould oblige both C h ie fs ;
whereas he h ig h ly difobliged the one, whofe favour was o f
the moil confequence to him, withou t g a in in g any reward
from the other. What I had forefeen happened. For W a heiadooa
kept the maro fo r him fe lf, and only fent to Otoo a
very fmall piece o f fe a th e r s ; not the twentieth part o f what
belonged to the magnificent prefent.
On the 19th, this y ou n g C h ie f made me a prefent o f ten Tuefdiy 19.
or a dozen hogs, a quantity o f fru it, and fome cloth. In
the evening, w e played o ff fome fireworks, which both afto.
niflied and entertained the numerous fpeCtators.
This day, fome o f our gentlemen, in their walks, found,
w h a t they were pleafed to call, a Roman Catholic chapel.
Indeed, from their account, this was not to be doubted; for
they defcribed the altar, and every other conilituent part o f
fuch a place o f worihip. However, as they m entioned, at the
fame time, that two men, who had the care o f it, would not
fuffer them to go in, I thought that they migh t be miftaken,
and had the curiofity to pay a vifit to it myfelf. T h e fuppofed
chapel proved to be a toopapaoo, in which the remains o f the
late Waheiadooa lay, as it were, in ftate. It was in a pretty
large houfe, w hich was inclofed with a low pallifade.
T h e toopapaoo was uncommonly neat, and refembled one
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