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Updated: May 13, 2025
"I used to fetch him oranges and mangoes, and climb for drinking nuts, of which Rui was fond," said Paiere. Paiere was a deacon or functionary of the Protestant church, as was Ori-a-Ori, and I went with the entire family to the Sunday evening service. For weeks preparations and rehearsals for a himene nui, a mammoth song service, had been agitating the village.
Ori-a-Ori, though busied in his official duties, and by nature a silent man, assumed of me a care, and in time gave me a friendship beyond my possible return to him. I sent to Papeete for a variety of edibles from the stores of the New-Zealand and German merchants, and spread a gay table, to which I often invited Choti and T'yonni, who were my hosts as frequently.
The chief listened throughout the message with his eyes empty of us, conjuring a vision of the Rui who so far back had won his heart; and when Choti had concluded, Ori-a-Ori lifted his glass, and said, "Rui e Maru!" coupling me in his affection with the dim figure of his sweet guest of the late eighties. The last toast was to my return.
I drew in their perfume as Ori-a-Ori said, "Ia ora na!" and took and held my hand a moment, while his grave eyes studied my face in all kindliness. Choti put him the question of my habitation, and he instantly offered me either a room in his own house or a small, native building on the opposite side of the road and nearer the beach. We walked over, and found it unoccupied.
Now that writer was once here in Tautira " Ori-a-Ori leaned toward me, and in a voice laden with memories, a voice that harked back over a quarter of a century, said slowly and meditatively, but with surety: "Rui? Is the ship the Tatto?"
In the days of Captain Cook The first Spanish missionaries Difficulties of converting the heathens Wars over Christianity Ori-a-Ori, the chief, friend of Stevenson We read the Bible together The church and the himene. Captain Cook barely escaped shipwreck here. The Bay of Tautira is marked on the French map, "Mouillage de Cook," the anchorage of Cook.
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