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I was informed, that he had taken this trouble, on 

 purpose to give me an opportunity of waiting upon 

 him ; having probably, heard of the displeasure I 

 had shown, on my disappointment the day before. 

 In the afternoon, a party of us, accompanied by 

 Feenou, landed to pay him a visit. We found a per- 

 son sitting under a large tree, near the shore, a little 

 to the right of the tent. A piece of cloth, at least 

 forty yards long, was spread before him, round which 

 a great number of people of both sexes were seated. 

 It was natural to suppose, that this was the great 

 man ; but we were undeceived by Feenou ; who in- 

 formed us, that another, who sat on a piece of mat, 

 a little way from this chief, to the right hand, was 

 Mareewagee, and he introduced us to him, who re- 

 ceived us very kindly, and desired us to sit down 

 by him. The person who sat under the tree, front- 

 ing us was called Toobou ; and when I have oc- 

 casion to speak of him afterward, I shall call him 

 old Toobou, to distinguish him from his namesake, 

 Captain Furneaux's friend. Both he and Mareewa- 

 gee had a venerable appearance. The latter is a 

 slender man, and from his appearance, seems to be 

 considerably above threescore years of age. The 

 former is rather corpulent, and almost blind with a 

 disorder of his eyes ; though not so old. 



Not expecting to meet with two chiefs, on this 

 occasion, I had only brought on shore a present for 

 one. This I now found myself under a necessity of 

 dividing between them ; but it happened to be 

 pretty considerable, and both of them seemed satis- 

 fied. After this, we entertained them for about an 

 hour with the performance of two French horns, 

 and a drum. But they seemed most pleased with 

 the firing off a pistol, which Captain Clerke had in 

 his pocket. Before I took my leave, the large piece 

 of cloth was rolled up, and, with a few cocoa-nuts, 

 presented to me. 



The next morning, old Toobou returned my visit 



