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Updated: May 23, 2025
Haamanemane said that he would speak to the king and queen of Tahiti about it. So he got down again over the side of the vessel into the canoe, and the paddles of his boatman flashed as they swept along over the breakers to the beach to tell the king of the great white chief who had come to visit them. All these things happened on the Sunday.
These white men knew some English, but lived, not as Christians, but as the natives lived. And after them came a great and aged chief named Haamanemane. This great chief went up to the "chief" of the ship, Captain Wilson, and called out to him "Taio." They did not know what this meant, till Peter the Swede explained that Haamanemane wished to be the brother the troth-friend of Captain Wilson.
The king and queen, with other branches of the royal family, and the most influential persons in the nation, were present; and Haamanemane, an aged chief of Raiatea, and chief priest of Tahiti, was the principal agent for the natives on this occasion.
They were even to change names. Captain Wilson would be called Haamanemane, and Haamanemane would be called Wilson. So Captain Wilson said "Taio," and he and the chief, who was also high priest of the gods of Tahiti, were brothers. Captain Wilson said to Haamanemane, through Peter, who translated each to the other: "We wish to come and live in this island."
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