While we were thus detained, my old friend oreo, chief of the island, with his son and Pootoe, his son-in-law, came off to visit us.
"A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16"
Robert Kerr
There we put ashore, and oreo dispatched a man before us, with orders to seize the deserters, and keep them till we should arrive with the boats.
"A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16"
Robert Kerr
This explanation of the motives upon which I acted, and which we found means to make oreo and his people, who were present, fully comprehend, seemed to recover them, in a great measure, from that general consternation into which they were at first thrown.
"A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16"
Robert Kerr