Maheine was now suffered to remain in quiet posession of Morea, and Mottooarro & his sisters were forced to remain at Taheite where o’Too, taking Eddea, Mottooarros sister to Wife; Mottooaro took o’Toos sister Tirrayraydooa to be his wife, but Maheine, who was against these Matches and supposed they would at one time be the means of driving him from the posessions he had seized upon, was detirmened to set them to work if he Could not seperate them but finding he could make nothing of them tho he set Tyarrabboo & Tomaree by the ears and now he declared war against o’Too who was forced to make an effort with the small Fleet he had left — these he put under the Command of Moana, Tootahas brother, & Wyetooa, o’Toos own brother, and a bloody fight took Place in Maatavye Bay when Maheine had brought his Fleet but being himself Kilid by Wyetooa the Fleet was mostly destroyd and His men fled home where they placed His adopted son Tayreehamoedooa on the throne of Morea where he remaind till after the Bounty saild in April 1789, when having made a party in the Island he got posession and by the help of the Arms left with o’Too he obtaind his right and forced Tayreehamoedooa with his Aunt & Mother to fly to Taheite for refuge where he now resides private.

Indigenous Histories