in i truft-dwith the.'reinsbafrr government' for her fon. $fc Oamroo ’was
ifon'.of Tenae, and elder .Brother’, o f Whappai,-. who.ftnce lias aflumed
the name .of* Otcy. . Whappai’s.-fonnOtdo'. was;then-a child o f fix or
feven yeais;old: SiTootaha,! itheir younger brother^
iio©r0oi '. ,' ,
Wars and:various" change's appear-to have preceded tjie laft.'.. grand
ireydMten^l-whent tbs psgfcfcfatis io£?<Moh}i.fiW^%'*th®il8lSf^?fe rbflthp
Iteutirieersyi recovered .. .the
'By-’bnKJ®£<thefe; iriteffine,warsjTeipirre,atheiTfrridi£riio£rS^^^^
been previously depofed, and Otoo, the .prefent Pomarre, advanced
to .tlic dignity, r.of •.fares? rahai. - But the. chiefs, o f Attahooroo,
tefadlE Tootaha,; had f e n ; ike (principals in elfe^ihg.iki^rcypIjati<^Er,
ilfeei4':.the..®egalia^ fhedroyaEte^uapaiid thesiark/nf'jthgnE^tQo^i^^d
icarrisft; them>tdffjlo.'theifcetwmdiffirftrj .indithoughlinoapabl.g, ©^(pfing
them, as not being o f the feed royal, they kept poflefEonof them
for the honour of their diftridt; and having eftabliflied their warlike
charadler, none'dared contend w ith them. To Attahooroo, therefore, on
all great folemnities, were'-al'l'the'othcr chiefs obliged to repaii, and ’were
fometimes infulted or plundered by the way. This occasioned continual
difputes; and the Attahooroo chiefs giving an afylum to all
thofe who fled for crimes from other diftridts, they became fuck a
terror to the reft, that Temarre, though dethroned and- reduced to his
private patrimony-, as~cliief o f Pappara, joined with Otoo to attack
them.
•'' Tiarabod alfo shad revolted, and* fet up Yayheeadooa. A general
wan commencedIjf Eimeo leagued with f Attahooroo-:Iiand' Maheine
- (the rte c leo f' Motuaro,i k ing of, that1 ifland.-who had married Otoo's
hfter^-as^Otoo had-teamed rhis)--rbfuiped ithe r igh t. o f his nephew,
'and-'-forced him- to take: -refuge’ with his brother-in-law’ a t . Oparre',
juft at the time Cook arrived! in iy'74,: who faw 'the’.preparations for
'war, -but did not wait its ifliie.
: Otoo (now. Pomarre), aftemnany confliifts,. maintained his .authority,
though-’ not without Such defeats" as' fometimes' drfve .him t0
ApP-EN-DIXi] TO THE SOUTH-SEA JSEANDS.
the. mountains',: and almoft .'annihilated: his maritime power. The
war canoes: ;of -Qtaheitotihaye ;3iearly difappeared1. Otpoihaving cultivated
the friend fhip of: the Europeans, continued to be acknowledged
fupreme cliief, though'holding a preCariouA&minibn, till the fettle-
merit: o f the mutineers at Matdvai. : Them he.engaged in his interefl;3
anthagjr theygt'oni^j'riaacline jthetbalahfce- to jvbhifcheveryflde theyipleafed,
by their 'means I he vancjuiflied Attahqornbl' rr.e&ovbred'the royal, tearo/
and eflnblifhed Km fsji’^tdpriiinron onnailmurerfolid baft's t-hpn it had
ever’ been fhafoBej 1 A^°tpHrOimlfQ,/fr^:0vdrc Juhis jlflft dd()f irn'Mip.y in
Eimib j dndi ftvengthenednfegbvbmmerjt of-his (nephew by a^wswb
fed^regsbrs ?fkpre'mahy: ABomarre -’(-thername r affufirrdd.y bj^theg father
fuceefliohf to .th'e’Sititledtf rOtcp'VxGeftn^edj’bas/ Tegepty
to jmknagdcthe>ialfi.irs 1 ofngaytmm^tljtearLd 1 hyothe "pelp) of ’ his European
ffflehds^tlrej-jleffeElasjjyeJifia^bhengiiealterf; pexim jjil^ibpsyedn JO
his- ftpn4pi,qn,* an d^is sflag - paflsdiijySth; revtrefiifae ld^ifttfa®Al|^he
diftridts i i j3San3Ererficft paid itt idiid hbmageL andgitlpaocbededif^Sm
hjtn-i through, iTipahoo'; iqlftwassdiumoni ja c k f glvsnebyythesoaptaiinJ
pfl,a^ffilC#hijdfc:ha^ tehichedrthere, iand detorat^d.withhltEditepfete^
o f ’pear 1 .and ged? featHeBs.afiTAn^Avaa j carried t61tk%gieat> Aioraiy' wrfiegBSf
diluthe -chief jpedpkbfr.the'<difti®£ilfl!ttmded; andoreceij^dritiyutb cerei;
monious Jreyfei^nce./A/
h Pomair%) feoih -king hbcomdlthe ijj:flpfubjg£E'''ofy hist fora anif-regentt
of. 'the? ftytejlifuipportluhis, Sotes ftlgnityAwifh~ allr, hi& i wergHit’ andirtn-,
flnencev • Tetearre dkgsinedvinThe tfe l^ p ^ f^ h d flj^w i^w iiiiy . hnd»>
haying no children, adopted Porparre’s daughter-,' flnee dead.1 Eimeo
acknowledged; the young kinig?s Sovereignty;; and his dominion v^asf
hotwhere,openly .reftfted,? thdugh iaa'<T&ahfejte;0re lhanrbne diftridt,
ftilT appears difeohtented.,
; As the ceremony o f invefting the young k in g with the royal maro,
like a coronation, is afolemnity which, few lean witnefsjthe ;follo wing!
account from'a fpeeftator will be intereftihg-.: ' 1.
Affembling at the great morai -at Oparre, the m'aro oor 1 ,'or^fedt
fafti of rqyaJfcyyrtredovered 3fromvAtitah«iorbow nva's. laid > ibndhe, <motai: