The reasons of all naval officers, as far as the history of Tahiti is concerned, have been very much alike, no matter what their nationality or their object; so I need not dwell on those which led Captain Edwards to spare the lives and property of Tahitians, whether Tevas or Purionuu, who had given him no kind of offence. The end of it was that the mutineers were brought in, one by one, until only six remained out. Captain Edwards sent two parties to find them. One party went by sea to Papara, under Lieut. Hayward. "The old Otoo and several of the Chiefs, etc., went with him." The other party crossed through the mountains. "Oripaia, the Otoo’s brother, went with him." The mutineers were found near the sea-shore, and surrendered.

From these extracts, it appears that the Chief of Papara, in March and April, 1791, was as powerful, as independent, and as hostile to the ambition of Tu, as any previous Temarii had been, and that neither Tu nor Tu’s half brother Ariipaea then ventured to exercise, or even to have exercised within a year past any authority or influence at Papara.

Down to April, 1791, we may conclude that no change had taken place in the relative position of the Chief of Papara towards the Chief of Pare Arue. Such changes as had taken place regarded Eimeo and Taiarapu, but these were very serious, and must have been very alarming to the Inner Tevas. What we know of them comes chiefly from the Voyage of Vancouver who arrived at the island at the close of the same year.

The Pandora sailed, with her prisoners, from Tahiti in May, 1791; and in the following December Vancouver arrived, in the sloop-of-war Discovery, on a search for the Northwest Passage. Stopping for

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