"I had the mortification of finding, on inquiry, that most of the friends I had left here in the year 1777, both male and female, were dead, Otoo, with his father [Teu], brothers, and sisters; Potatow and his family, were the only chiefs of my old acquaintance that were now living. Otoo was not here [at Pare]; nor did it appear that Otaheite was now the place of his residence, having retired to his newly acquired possession, Eimeo, or, as the natives more commonly call that island, Morea, leaving his eldest son the supreme authority over this and all the neighboring islands. The young king had taken the name of Otoo and my old friend that of Pomurrey, having given up his name with his sovereign jurisdiction, though he still seemed to retain his authority as regent."

This is the first record of the name Pomare, by which the family has been since known. After the birth of the young Tu, about 1782, the first of his children who was allowed to live, the father seems to have taken the name of Tinah, perhaps Taino, which he bore in 1788. He took the name of Po-mare (night-cough) from his younger son, Terii navahoroa, a very young child in 1791, who coughed at night. Subsequently he took the name of Vatratoa, as I shall notice in its place, and as Vairatoa he is still known in the family.

Vancouver sent a boat to Eimeo for Pomare, who came over January 2, 1792, bringing with him his brother-in-law Motuaria, or Metuaro, who was supposed by Vancouver to be the same Terii tapunui that was known to Cook and Forster as chief of Varari in Eimeo. He was called commonly Metuaro Mahau. According to our records, he was Taaro-arii, a younger brother of Cook’s Terii tapunui, who was dead without issue, and left his name and property to Taaro-arii, who also had no male children.

"With Pomurrey,"said Vancouver, came Matuara Mahau, "the reign-

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