Captain Edwards made an official report of his own, dated from Batavia, Nov. 25, 1791, in which he said much about Tu and Temarii. The mutineers, it seems, unable to keep at sea in their schooner, landed at Papara, March 26, and took refuge in the mountains. Captain Edwards immediately sent two boats, with a number of men, to Papara. His report continued:

"I found the Otoo ready to furnish me with guides and to give me any other assistance in his power, but he has very little authority or influence in that part of the island where the pirates had taken refuge and even his right to the sovereignty of the eastern part of the island had been recently disputed by Tamarie, one of the royal family. Under these circumstances I conceived the taking Otoo and the other chiefs attached to his interest into custody would alarm the faithful part of his subjects and operate to our disadvantage. I therefore satisfied myself with the assistance he offered and had in his power to give me and I found means at different times to convey presents to Tamarie (and invited him to come on board which he promised to do but never fulfilled his promise), and convinced him I had it in my power to lay his country waste, which I imagined would be sufficient at least to make him withhold that support he hitherto through policy had occasionally given to the pirates in order to draw them to his interest and strength-

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