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[Ms 45]

Eimeo Feb 27 1803

Very dear Friend

It was my intention to have written to you by the return of the vessel we came in; but Mrs Wilson was exceedingly ill and the vessel came in the afternoon and sailed next morning which prevented me.
When we arrived the King was on this island and remained three month after our arrival too. Tahitian chiefs came then and fetched him away he and the Leeward Islands chief and men went over to Otaheiti, but the state of the Island is as much unsettled as ever for though he still lives peaceably among them he is not restored to his former authority 
  We also live peaceably here, but without any very pleasing prospect respecting the Missions. This is our comfort that the Lord reigneth over the Kingdoms of the Heathen and though clouds & sickness be round about them, justice and judgement is the habitation of this Island. One thing which encourages us to hope that the time to favor these Heathens as not far distant is that Pomare has openly declared the vanity and folly of

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