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what J had been told, finding he was not the man 

 whom I remembered to have seen under that cha- 

 racter during my former voyage, I began to entertain 

 doubts. Taipa officiously answered for him, and 

 enumerated no less than one hundred and fifty-three 

 islands, of which he said, Feenou was the sovereign. 

 After a short stay, our new visitor, and five or six of 

 his attendants, accompanied me on board. I gave 

 suitable presents to them all, and entertained them 

 in such a manner, as I thought would be most agree- 

 able. 



In the evening, I attended them on shore in my 

 boat, into which the chief ordered three hogs to be 

 put, as a return for the presents he had received from 

 me. I was now informed of an accident which had 

 just happened, the relation of which will convey 

 some idea of the extent of the authority exercised 

 here over the common people. While Feenou was 

 on board my ship, an inferior chief, for what reason 

 our people on shore did not know, ordered all the 

 natives to retire from the post we occupied. Some 

 of them having ventured to return, he took up a 

 large stick and beat them most unmercifully. He 

 struck one man, on the side of the face, with so 

 much violence, that the blood gushed out of his 

 mouth and nostrils ; and, after lying some time mo- 

 tionless, he was at last removed from the place in 

 convulsions. The person who had inflicted the blow, 

 being told that he had killed the man, only laughed 

 at it ; and, it was evident, that he was not in the 

 least sorry for what had happened. We heard, after- 

 ward, that the poor sufferer recovered. 



The Discovery having found again her small bower 

 anchor, shifted her birth on the Jth ; but not before 

 her best bower cable had shared the fate of the other. 

 This day, I had the company of Feenou at dinner ; 

 and also the next day, when he was attended by 

 Taipa, Toobou, and some other chiefs. It was re- 

 markable, that none but Taipa was allowed to sit at 



