The present husband of the queen is a chief of Imeeo.
The reputation of Pomaree is not what it ought to be.

She, and also her mother, were, for a long time, excommunicated members of the Church; and the former, I believe, still is.

Among other things, her conjugal fidelity is far from being unquestioned.

Indeed, it was upon this ground chiefly that she was excluded from the communion of the Church.
Previous to her misfortunes she spent the greater portion of her time sailing about from one island to another, attended by a licentious court; and wherever she went all manner of games and festivities celebrated her arrival.
She was always given to display.

For several years the maintenance of a regiment of household troops drew largely upon the royal exchequer.
They were trouserless fellows, in a uniform of calico shirts and pasteboard hats; armed with muskets of all shapes and calibres, and commanded by a great noisy chief, strutting it in a coat of fiery red.