 Stevenson had moved to the village from Papeete and lived in a hut called the "bird-cage house" where the beautiful Princess Moe, an old lady of royalty, tended him back to good health, bringing him dishes of raw fish in coconut milk, lime juice, sea water and chilli.The local chief, "Ori O Ori", befriended him and kept him in his house, and they had even exchanged names as “Rui” and “Terii-Tera”.It was during his stay here that Stevenson wrote to his friends calling Tautira as “The Garden of the World”.