The language of Otaheite has many words, and even phrases, quite unlike those of the islands to the westward of it, which all agree; and this island is remarkable for producing great quantities of that delicious fruit we call apples, which are found in none of the others, except Eimeo.  It has also the advantage of producing an odoriferous wood, called eahoi, which is highly valued at the other isles, where there is none; nor even in the south-east peninsula, or Tiaraboo, though joining it.  Huaheine and Eimeo, again, are remarkable for producing greater quantities of yams than the other islands.  And at Mourooa there is a particular bird, found upon the hills, much esteemed for its white feathers; at which place there is also said to be some of the apples, though it be the most remote of the Society Islands from Otaheite and Eimeo, where they are produced.

Though the religion of all the islands be the same, each of them has its particular, or tutelar god; whose names, according to the best information I could receive, are set down in the following list: 

Gods of the Isles,

Huaheine, Tanne.
Ulietea, Oore.
Otaha, Tanne.
Bolabola, Oraa.
Mourooa, Otoo, ee weiahoo.
Toobaee, Tamouee.
Tabooymanoo, or Saunders’s \
Island, which } Taroa.
is subject to Huaheine,/
Eimeo, Oroo hadoo.

Otaheite-nooe,} Ooroo.
Otaheite, {
Tiaraboo, } {_Opoonooa_ and whom they have
{_Whatooteeree_, { lately changed
for Oraa, god
of Bolabola.

Mataia or Osnaburgh Tooboo, toobooai, Ry maraiva.
Island

The Low Isles, Eastward Tammaree.

Besides the cluster of high islands from Mataia to Mourooa inclusive, the people of Otaheite are acquainted with a low uninhabited island, which they name Mopeeha, and seems to be Howe’s Island, laid down to the westward of Mourooa in our late charts of this ocean.  To this the inhabitants of the most leeward islands sometimes go.  There are also several low islands, to the north-eastward of Otaheite, which they have sometimes visited, but not constantly; and are said to be only at the distance of two days’ sail, with a fair wind.  They were thus named to me: 

  Mataeeva,
  Oanaa, called Oannah, in Dalrymple’s letter to Hawkesworth
  Taboohoe,
  Awehee,
  Kaoora,
  Orootooa,
  Otavaoo, where are large pearls.