The district of Tettaha is not so luxuriant and fruitful as the country about Matavai.  As I saw nothing of consequence to detain me I made a present to Teppahoo and, after inviting him to visit me on board the ship, which he promised to do, I took leave.  Tinah had remained all this time in the boat.  I observed that no respect was shown to him at this place, nor was he able to procure a coconut or a breadfruit otherwise than by purchasing it.  The heifer being here is a proof of this district not having been friendly to the people of Matavai and Oparre.

In our way back, having to row against the wind, we stopped to refresh at Oparre, and it was eight o’clock by the time we arrived at the ship.  I kept my fellow travellers on board to supper and they did not fail to remind me of the king’s health.

Monday 17.

Our collection of breadfruit plants at the tents continued increasing.  This morning I sent twelve on board, in pots, to discover where they would thrive the best, the air being more temperate on board the ship than on shore.  While I was absent from the ship Teppahoo had been on board and left a hog as a present for me.

After dinner today Tinah, who was my constant visitor, left the table sooner than usual.  When he was gone Oreepyah, his brother, and Oedidde, told me a piece of scandal, which had been before hinted to me but which till now I had not heard of with certainty:  this was that Iddeah, Tinah’s wife, kept a gallant, who was a towtow, or servant, and the very person who always fed Tinah at dinner:  and this was so far from being without Tinah’s knowledge or consent that they said it was by his desire.  They added many other circumstances and, as I appeared to doubt, they took several opportunities in the course of the day of mentioning it to other people, who all declared it was true.

Tuesday 18.

This afternoon I saw Teppahoo and invited him on board:  before we parted I bargained with him for the heifer which he promised to bring in five days.  My intention was that if I got the heifer I would endeavour to purchase the bull at Itteah:  but if that could not be done then I could send the heifer as a present to the possessor of the bull, which might equally well answer my purpose.

It has been mentioned that Tinah had a place in my cabin to keep those things which I gave him as being more secure on board than on shore.  I had remarked lately that his hoard seemed to diminish the more I endeavoured to increase it:  at length I discovered that Iddeah kept another hoard in the master’s cabin, which she regularly enriched from her husband’s whenever I made him a present, apprehending that I should cease giving when I saw Tinah’s locker full.  At his request I set the carpenters to work to make him a chest large enough for himself and wife to sleep on.  Captain Cook had formerly given him such a chest but it had been taken from him by the Eimeo people.