s, Peery Peery, or Stingy.

In becoming the Tyo, or friend of a man, it is expected you pay him a
compliment, by cherishing his wife; but, being ignorant of that ceremony,
I very innocently gave high offence to Matuara, the king of York Island,
to whom I was introduced as his friend: a shyness took place on the side
of his Majesty, from my neglect to his wife; but, through the medium of
Brown the interpreter, he put me in mind of my duty, and on my promising
my endeavours, matters were for that time made up. It was to me, however,
a very serious inauguration: I was, in the first place, not a young man,
and had been on shore a whole week; the lady was a woman of rank, being
sister to Ottoo, the king of Otaheitee, and had in her youth been
beautiful, and named Peggy Ottoo. She is the right hand dancing figure so
elegantly delineated in Cook's Voyages. But Peggy had seen much service,
and bore away many honourable scars in the fields of Venus. However, his
Majesty's service must be done, and Matuara and I were again friends. He
was a domesticated man, and passionately fond of his wife and children;
but now became pensive and melancholy, dreading the child should be
Piebald; though the lady was six months advanced in her pregnancy before
we came to the island.

The force of friendship amongst those good creatures, will be more fully
understood from the following circumstance: Churchhill, the principal
ringleader of the mutineers, on his landing, became the Tyo, or friend,
of a great chief in the upper districts. Some time after the chief
happening to die without issue, his title and estate, agreeable to their
law from Tyoship, devolved on Churchhill, who having some dispute with
one Thomson of the _Bounty_, was shot by him. The natives immediately
rose, and revenged the death of Churchhill their chief, by killing
Thomson, whose skull was afterwards shown to us, which bore evident marks
of fracture.

Oedidy, although perfectly devoted to our interest, on being appointed
one of the guides in the expedition against the mutineers, expressed
great horror at the act he was going to commit, in betraying his friend,
being Tyo to one of them.

They are much less addicted to thieving than when Capt. Cook visited
them; and when things were stolen, by applying to the magistrate of the
district, the goods were immediately returned; for, like every other well
regulated police, the thief and justice were of one gang.

Sometimes we sl