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516 Q U E E N P O M A K E — N A T I V E S . Nov.
lie -was secretaiy of legation to the Marquis of Marialva, at
the congress of Vienna; and that in 1815 he belonged to
the S3d Light Dragoons (English). In 1816 he -was attaché
to the French ainhassador in London. In 1819 he was studying
divinity at Oxford. In 1820-21, he was a student of laws
at Cambridge. Afterwards he travelled on the continent :
and lately had been sojourning in tlie United States. He visited
and brought letters from the Governor of St. Thomas, in the
West Indies. He showed papers to prove these assertions:
had a wife and four children with him ; and he had succeeded
in duping a great many people.
Mr. Pritchard had seen the queen (by courtesy called
Pomare, after her father, though her name was Ainiatta) at
Eimeo,. the day before he arrived at Otaheite ; and as she had
not intimated an intention of coming thence, I agreed to go
with him in a few days to pay my respects to her, and to make
a formal application upon the subject of the Truro, a merchant
vessel plundered and destroyed hy the Low Islanders in
1880-31.* I returned to Matavai in. the evening, and, after
landing Mr. Wilson, remained nearly two hours listening to
the natives singing. I asked them to dance; but they said it
was forbidden, and that the watchman would take them to the
governor of the district, who would fine them heavily. Singing,
except hymns, is also forbidden to the grown people, but
they seemed to like listening to the children.
This evening, before dark, there was a sight upon the
Beagle’s deck, which delighted us wlio wished to collect shells
but had not time to look for them. An Englishman# had
spread out a large collection which he had just brought from
the Low Islands, and soon found eager purchasers.
19fh. We weighed anchor, and went into the little cove of
Papawa, for the sake of watering quickly, without exposing
the men and boats to a heavy surf It is easy to avoid the
numerous rocky patches, while there is a hreeze, and the sun
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* This I was requested to do hy Commodore Mason,
t John Middleton.