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Updated: October 8, 2026
To their joy the brown-skinned natives of Tawere behaved very kindly to them, for several whale-ships, and, later on, the missionaries of the London Missionary Society's ship, had visited their island, and the people were well-disposed to white men.
The island afforded but little in the way of food only fish, pigs, cocoanuts, and a coarse species of taro, but of these the people were profuse in their presents to the white men. Only remaining a day and a night at Tawere, Todd bade farewell to the amiable natives, and continued on his course, sighting many other islands of the group, but calling at none.