The language of Otaheite has many words, and even phrases, quite unlike those of the islands to the westward of it, which all agree; and it is remarkable for producing great quantities of that delicious fruit we called apples, which are found in none of the others, except Eimeo. It has also the advantage of producing an odoriferous wood, called _eahoi_, which is highly valued at the other isles where there is none; nor even in the south-east peninsula, or Tiarraboo, though joining it. And at Mourooa there is a particular bird found upon the hills, much esteemed for its white feathers; at which place there is also said to be some of the apples, though it be the most remote of the Society Islands from Otaheite and Eimeo, where they are produced. Though the religion of all the islands be the same, each of them has its particular or tutelar God; whose names, according to the best information I could receive, are set down in the following list: _Gods of the Isles._ Huaheine, _Tanne._ Ulietea, _Oroo._ Otaha, _Tanne._ Bolabola, _Oraa._ Mourooa, _Otoo, ee weiahoo._ Toobaee, _Tamouee_. Tabooymanoo, or } Saunders’s Island, } _Taroa_. which is subject } to Huaheine, } Eimeo, _Oroo hadoo_. {Otaheite } _Ooroo_. { nooe, } Otaheite, { { whom they have {Tiaraboo { _Opoonoa_, and { lately changed { _Whatooteeree_ { for Oraa, god { of Bolabola. Mataia, or Osnaburgh } _Tooboo, toobooai, Ry maraiva_. Island, } The low isles, Eastward, } _Tammaree_. Besides the cluster of high islands from Mataia to Mourooa inclusive, the people of Otaheite are acquainted with a low uninhabited island, which they name Mopeeha, and seems to be Howe’s Island, laid down to the westward of Mourooa in our late charts of this ocean. To this the inhabitants of the most leeward islands sometimes go. There are also several low islands, to the north-eastward of Otaheite, which they have sometimes visited, but not constantly; and are said to be only at the distance two days’ sail with a fair wind. They were thus named to me: Mataeeva, Oanaa, called Oanna in Dalrymple’s Letter to Hawkesworth. Taboohoe, Awehee, Kaoora, Orootooa, Otavaoo, where are large pearls.