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One day a message came over from Tetoro, King of Pare, in Tahiti, to his vassal Mahua, chief of Tetuaroa,{*} saying, 'Get thee ready a great feast, for in ten days I send thee my daughter Laea to be wife to thy son Narue.
* Tetuaroa is an island about forty miles from Tahiti. It / was in those days (1808) part of the hereditary possessions / of the chief of Pare.