Friends, I have done, and have nothing at all more to ask you for: as for your desire to instruct Tahete, ’tis what I fully acquiesce in. ’Tis a common thing for people not to understand at first; but your object is good, and I fully consent to it; and shall cast off all evil customs.
What I say is truth, and no lie; it is the real truth.
This is all I have to write. I have done. Friends, write to me, that I may know what you have to say. I wish you life and every blessing. May I also live, and Jehovah save us all!
Pomare, King of Tahete, &c. &c.
For my Friends, the Missionary
Society, London.
Curious Love Letter.
Madam,—Most worthy of estimation! After long consideration, and much meditation, on the great reputation you possess in the nation, I have a strong inclination to become your relation. On your approbation of this declaration, I shall make preparation to remove my situation, to a more convenient station, to profess my admiration; and if such oblation is worthy of observation, and can obtain commiseration, it will be an aggrandization beyond all calculation of the joy and exultation,
Of your’s,
Sans Dissimulation.
The Answer.
Sir,—I perused your oration with much deliberation, and a little consternation, at the great infatuation of your imagination, to shew such veneration on so slight a foundation. But after examination and much serious contemplation, I supposed your animation was the fruit of recreation, or had sprung from ostentation, to display your education, by an odd enumeration, or rather multiplication, of words of the same termination, though of great variation in each respective signification.