"October 16 [1799].... Heard that five human sacrifices have, within a few days, been brought over from Eimeo to this island; also that many of the inhabitants of Opare (of the poorest sort) have fled to the mountains to avoid being seized for human sacrifices, as Otoo and Pomere are looking out for what they deem fit objects for that purpose.... It appears that these things are preparations for the purposed war, and that Pomere is doing what other blind heathens have done before him, laboring to bribe his idol-god to be propitious to him, and to forsake the district of Attahooroo.

"October 17. It is said the cause of the present war with Attahooroo is that the inhabitants of that district have resented the tyrannical and oppressive conduct of the chiefs, who exercise with an high hand their authority over those subject to their power.

"January 1, 1800. At one in the afternoon Otoo, Pomere and Edea assembled before brother Eyre’s apartment, and the brethren presented unto each a musket and one four-pound cartridge."

[Letter to the. Rev. John Love, for the directors of the Missionary Society, January 14, 1800]. -- "This island is at present in a state of tranquility, but we fear ere long it will be involved in war, as a great disagreement is subsisting between Otoo, Pomere, &c., and the district of Attahooroo, one of the most powerful divisions of the island. From the Eliza has been landed on Pomere’s account (without any interference of ours) one eighteen-pound carronade, two swivels, several muskets, and a great deal of ammunition."

"May 21. Hear there are commotions among the lower classes of natives against Pomere, chiefly on account of his tyrannical conduct (it is said) in frequently plundering them of their little property.

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