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the sentries to be loaded with small shot, and to 

 authorize them to fire on particular occasions. 1 

 took it for granted, therefore, that this man had only 

 been wounded with small shot. But Mr. King and 

 Mr. Anderson, in an excursion into the country, met 

 with him, and found indubitable marks of his having 

 been wounded, but not dangerously, with a musket 

 ball. I never could find out how this musket hap- 

 pened to be charged with ball ; and there were 

 people enough ready to swear that its contents were 

 only small shot. 



Mr. Anderson's account of the excursion just 

 mentioned, will fill up an interval of two days, during 

 which nothing of note happened at the ships : " Mr. 

 King and I went, on the 30th, along with Futtafaihe 

 as visitors to his house, which is at Mooa, very near 

 that of his brother Poulaho. A short time after we 

 arrived, a pretty large hog was killed ; which is done 

 by repeated strokes on the head. The hair was 

 then scraped off very dexterously with the sharp edge 

 of pieces of split bamboo ; taking the entrails out at 

 a large oval hole cut in the belly by the same simple 

 instrument. Before this, they had prepared an oven - 9 

 which is a large hole dug in the earth, filled at the 

 bottom with stones about the size of the first, over 

 which a fire is made till they are red hot. They 

 took some of these stones wrapt up in leaves of the 

 bread-fruit tree, and filled the hog's belly, stuffing 

 in a quantity of leaves to prevent their falling out, 

 and putting a plug of the same kind in the anus. 

 The carcase was then placed on some sticks laid 

 across the stones in a standing posture, and covered 

 with a great quantity of plantain leaves. After 

 which they dug up the earth all round ; and having 

 thus effectually closed the oven, the operation of 

 baking required no farther interference. 



" In the mean time we walked about the country, 

 but met with nothing remarkable except a Jiatooka 

 of one house, standing on an artificial mount, at 



