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romee upon his legs ; and I have always found it to 

 have an exceeding good effect. * 



In the morning of the 25th, Otoo, Mr. King, and 

 Omai, returned from Attahooroo ; and Mr. King gave 

 me the following account of what he had seen : 



" Soon after you left me, a second messenger came 

 from Towha, to Otoo, with a plantain-tree. It was 

 sunset when we embarked in a canoe and left Oparre : 

 about nine o'clock we landed at Tettaha, at that ex- 

 tremity which joins to Attahooroo. Before we landed, 

 the people called to us from the shore, probably to 

 tell us that Towha was there. The meeting of Otoo 

 and this chief I expected would afford some inci- 

 dent worthy of observation. Otoo and his attend- 

 ants went and seated themselves on the bench, close 

 to the canoe in which Towha was. He was then 

 asleep ; but his servants having awaked him, and 

 mentioning Otoo's name, immediately a plantain-tree 

 and a dog were laid at Otoo's feet ; and many of 

 Towha's people came and talked with him, as I con- 

 ceived, about their expedition to Eimeo. After I 

 had, for some time, remained seated close to Otoo, 

 Towha neither stirring from his canoe, nor holding 

 any conversation with us, I went to him. He asked 

 me if Toote was angry with him. 1 answered, No : 

 that he was his taio ; and that he had ordered 

 me to go to Attahooroo to tell him so. Omai now 

 had a long conversation with this chief; but I could 

 gather no information of any kind from him. On 

 my returning to Otoo, he seemed desirous that I 

 should go to eat, and then to sleep. Accordingly, 

 Omai and I left him. On questioning Omai, he said, 

 the reason of Towha's not stirring from his canoe 

 was his being lame ; but that, presently, Otoo and he 

 would converse together in private. This seemed 

 true; for, in a little time, those we left with Otoo 



* See Captain Wallis's account of the same operation performed 

 on himself, and his first lieutenant, in Haivkesxvorth's Collection, 

 vol. i. p. 463. Lond. edit. 



