tly satisfied.

Monday 16.

On the 16th I was informed that a stop was put to the sale of hogs in the
district of Tettaha. Teppahoo, the Earee of that district, told me that
they had very few hogs left there, and that it was necessary for a
certain time to prohibit every person from killing or selling, that they
might have time to breed. I did not think it reasonable to solicit any
indulgence on this head: my friends at Matavai and Oparre promised to
supply us as long as we remained here, though we had considerably thinned
their stock. After our departure the same restriction was to take place
in these districts, and it being delayed on our account certainly
deserves to be regarded among their acts of friendship towards us.

As it was generally known that we were preparing to sail a number of the
natives from other parts of the island were constantly with us, and petty
thefts were committed whenever the negligence of our people afforded an
opportunity: but no attempt of any consequence was made.

Thursday 19.

This evening Mr. Samwel my clerk returned from an excursion to the
mountains, having been two days absent. He described the hills to be well
clothed with wood, except the tops of the higher mountains which only
produced bushes and fern. The birds he saw were blue parakeets and green
doves, except one which he found burrowing in the ground and brought to
me. This bird was about the size of a pigeon, and proved to be a
white-bellied petrel of the same kind as those seen in high latitudes,
which are called shearwaters. He likewise brought a branch of a plant
like the New Zealand tea-plant, and which at Van Diemen's land we had
made use of for brooms. From the hills he saw the islands Maitea and
Huaheine, which are situated nearly in opposite directions from Otaheite
and are 70 leagues distant from each other.

Friday 27.

For some days past Tinah had been busied in getting two parais, or
mourning-dresses, made, which he intended as a present to King George.
Being finished they were this morning hung up in his house as a public
exhibition, and a long prayer made on the occasion, the substance of
which was that the King of England might forever remain his friend and
not forget him. When he presented the parais for me to take on board he
could not refrain from shedding tears. During the short remainder of our
stay here there appeared among the natives an evident degree of sorrow
that we were so soon to leave the