Thus equipped, on our landing, we first visited Etary, who, carried on a hand-barrow, attended us to a large house, where he was set down, and we seated ourselves on each side of him.  I caused a piece of Tongataboo cloth to be spread out before us, on which I laid the presents I intended to make.  Presently the young chief came, attended by his mother, and several principal men, who all seated themselves at the other end of the cloth, facing us.  Then a man, who sat by me, made a speech, consisting of short and separate sentences, part of which was dictated by those about him.  He was answered by one from the opposite side, near the chief.  Etary spoke next, then Omai, and both of them were answered from the same quarter.  These orations were entirely about my arrival, and connexions with them.  The person who spoke last told me, among other things, that the men of Reema, that is, the Spaniards, had desired them not to suffer me to come into Oheitepeha Bay, if I should return any more to the island, for that it belonged to them; but that they were so far from paying any regard to this request, that he was authorised now to make a formal surrender of the province of Tiaraboo to me, and of every thing in it; which marks very plainly that these people are no strangers to the policy of accommodating themselves to present circumstances.  At length, the young chief was directed by his attendants to come and embrace me, and, by way of confirming this treaty of friendship, we exchanged names.  The ceremony being closed, he and his friends accompanied me on board to dinner.

Omai had prepared a maro, composed of red and yellow feathers, which he intended for Otoo, the king of the whole island; and, considering where we were, it was a present of very great value.  I said all that I could to persuade him not to produce it now, wishing him to keep it on board till an opportunity should offer of presenting it to Otoo with his own hands.  But he had too good an opinion of the honesty and fidelity of his countrymen to take my advice.  Nothing would serve him but to carry it ashore on this occasion, and to give it to Waheiadooa, to be by him forwarded to Otoo, in order to its being added to the royal maro.  He thought by this management that he should oblige both chiefs; whereas he highly disobliged the one, whose favour was of the most consequence to him, without gaining any reward from the other.  What I had foreseen happened, for Waheiadooa kept the maro for himself, and only sent to Otoo a very small piece of feathers, not the twentieth part of what belonged to the magnificent present.

On the 19th, this young chief made me a present of ten or a dozen hogs, a quantity of fruit, and some cloth.  In the evening, we played off some fire-works, which both astonished and entertained the numerous spectators.