foreheads very much with the shark’s tooth, but what both surprised and pleased them very much, was, to see a man carrying the portrait of Captain Cook, drawn by Webber in 1777.  Notwithstanding so much time had elapsed since the picture was drawn, it had received no injury, and they were informed that O’too always carried it with him wherever he went.  After the first salutations were over, Mr. Watts asked O’too to accompany him to the ship, to which he readily agreed; but previously to his entering the boat he ordered the portrait in, and when he got alongside the ship he observed the same ceremony.  When on board he appeared much pleased, asked after his old friends, and was very particular in his enquiries after Capt.  Cook.  He visited the ship between decks, was astonished to see so few people on board, and the greatest part of them in a debilitated state, and enquired if they had lost any men at sea.  He acquainted them with the revenge taken by the Eimeo people, and asked why they had not brought out some cattle, etc.  He also mentioned the death of Omai, and the New Zealand boys, and added, that there had been a skirmish between the men of Uliatea and those of Huaheine, in which the former were victorious, and that a great part of Omai’s property was carried to Uliatea.  O’too was considerably improved in his person, and was by much the best made man of any that they saw; nor was he, as yet, disfigured by the baneful effects of the ava.  He preserved his original character in supplying the ship with provisions of every kind in the most liberal manner; and when any of the natives who had come from a considerable distance, begged his intercession with them on board to take their hogs, etc. off their hands, which, on account of the few people they had, they were often obliged, much against their inclination, to refuse, he was very moderate:  indeed, he generally left the matter to themselves, and whenever he undertook to dispose of another person’s property was always well paid for his trouble.  During their stay at Otaheite he daily paid them a visit, and importuned the Captain very much to move the ship into the Resolution’s old birth:  where she then lay, she was nearly in the situation of the Dolphin on her first anchoring; and though at some distance from the watering place, yet, considering the small number of people on board, and their weak situation, the Captain judged it prudent to remain where he was, as in case of necessity he could put to sea instantly.

O’too was always accompanied by a woman, whose advice he asked upon every occasion; she was by no means handsome, neither did she possess that delicacy, or those engaging manners that so much distinguish her countrywomen in general:  she was of the Earree class, and seemed to have great authority; but whether or no she was his wife they did not learn, though Mr. Watts was rather inclined to think they were married, and he appeared to be greatly attached to her.