•777- next day, that it was too late to deliberate about this mea-
Se p tem b e r , _ and that Towha, Potatou, and another Chief, had a lready
gone upon the expedition with the fleet o f Attahoo-
wetaf. 17. roo. For a meffenger arrived in the evening, with intelligence
that they had reached Eimeo, and that there had been
fome ikirmiihes, without much lofs or advantage on either
fide.
Thurfday 18» In the morning o f the 18th, Mr. Anderfon, m y fe lf, and
Omai, went again with Otoo to Oparre, and took w ith us
the fheep w h ich I intended to leave upon the ifland, confiding
o f an Englifh ram and ewe, and three Cape ewes ;
all which I gave to Otoo. As all the three cows had taken
the bull, I thought I might venture to divide them, and
carry fome to Ulietea. With this view, I had them brou ght
before us, and propofed to Etary, that i f he would leave his
bu ll wiih Otoo, he ihould have mine, and one o f the three
cow s ; adding, that I would carry them fo r him to Ulietea;
fo r I was afraid to remove the Spanifti bull, left fome accident
Ihould happen to him, as he was a b u lk y fpirited beaft.
To .this propofal o f mine, Etary, at firft, made fome objections
; but, at laft, agreed to i t ; partly through the perfua-
fion o f Omai. . However, juft as the cattle were putting
into the boar, one o f Etary’s followers valiantly oppofed
any exchange whatever being made. Finding this, and
fufpetfting that Etary had only confented to the propofed
arrangement, for the prefent moment, to pleafe m e ; and
that, after I was gone, he might take awa y his bull, and
then Otoo would not have one, I thought it beft to drop
the idea o f an exchange, as it could not be made with the
mutual confent o f both partie s; and finally determined to
leave them all with *Otoo, ftritftly injoining him never to
fuffer them robe removed from Oparre, not even theSpaniih
bull,
h u ll, nor any o f the iheep, till he ihould get a flock o f youn g *777-
o n e s ; w hich he m igh t then difpofe o f to his friends, and Siilit<:,nbi;r:
-fend to the neigh b ourin g ifland.s.
This being fettled, we le ft Etary and his party to ruminate
upon their fo lly , and attended Otoo to another place,
hard by, where we found the fervants o f a Ch ief, whole'
name I forgot to alk, w a itin g with a hog, a pig, and a dog,
a s a prefent from their matter to the fovereign. Thefe were
delivered with the ufua l ceremonies, and with an harangue
in form, in w h ich the fpeaker, in his mailer’s name, enquired
after the health o f Otoo, and o f a ll the principal
people about him. T h is compliment was echoed back in
the name o f Otoo, b y one o f his min ifte rs; apd then the
difpute with Eimeo was difcuffed, with many arguments fo r
and a g am ftit. T he deputies o f this C h ie f were for profecut-
in g the war with vigour, and advifed Otoo to offer a human
facrifice. On the other hand, a C h ie f, who was in conftant attendance
on Otoo’s perfon, oppofed it, feeming ly, with great
ftrength o f argument. This confirmed me in the opinion,
that Otoo him fe lf never entered heartily into the fpirit o f
this war. He now received repeated meffages from Towha,
ftrongly foliciting h im to haften to his afliftance. We were
told, that his fleet was, in a manner, furrounded by that o f
Maheine; but that neither the one, n o r the other, durft
hazard an engagement.
Afte r dining with Otoo, w e returned to Matavai, leaving
him at Oparre. This day, and alfo the 19th, we were ve ry F r id a y 19. -
Ipann gly fupplied with fruit, Otoo hearing o f this, he and
his brother, who had attached h im fe lf to Captain Clerke,
came from Oparre, between nine and ten o ’clock in the
e venin g, with a large fupply for both ihips. This marked
his humane attention more ftrongly, than any thing he had
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