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were found to be sadly given to calumniate one another by all sorts of fictions; and even Pomaree, bad as he really was, seems sometimes to have been worse reported of by the others than he deserved. Upon another occasion Korro-korro told a long story about a design which he said had been formed to cut off the ship belonging to the mis sionaries, and of which he maintained that Pomaree was the principal instigator; but this was afterwards discovered to be a mere inven tion of that otherwise very honourable chief. Notwithstanding Pomaree’s bad reputation, indeed, it is remarkable that we do not find a single instance anywhere recorded in which any European had reason to complain of his conduct. Nicholas was once dreadfully alarmed by the apprehension that he had decoyed away his friend, Marsden, to murder him; but was very soon relieved by the return of the reverend gentleman from a friendly walk which he had been enjoying, in the company of his supposed assassin, through one of the woods on his territory. Pomaree, in truth, was too thoroughly aware of the advantages to be derived from the visits of the Europeans to think of exercising his murderous propensities upon their persons, however fond he might have been of embruing his hands in the blood of his own countrymen. “We found Pomaree,” says Nicholas, “to be a very extraordinary character; he was of more