2?4 NATIVE SONG. 



must be deferred till the morrow. He was a merry, 

 active^ g-ood-humoured fellow^ and g'ave us a number 

 of song's^ one of which I wrote down. Although 

 unfortunately I cannot g-ive an accompanying- 

 translation^ yet this song- exhibits the remarkable 

 softness of the lang-uag-e from the great number of 

 vowels. 



Ama watuya boyama 

 Manyiire gerri gege iidaeno 

 Dagi ginoa dagi gino ama 

 Watu yebbo. 



Manyure gerri gege udaeno 

 Dagi'egino da' gino ama 



Watu yebbo — watu yebbo. 



Most of them — perhaps all — were extempore^ as 

 on turning* his attention to the moon_, he struck up 

 a sonof in which the name of that body was fre- 

 quently mentioned. He was treated to an exhibition 

 of the magic lantern in the cabin by Capt. Stanley^ 

 and a rocket was sent up to his great astonishment 

 and admiration^ which he found words to express in 

 ^' kaiwa^^ (fire) '^ kaiwa, oh! dim dim T 



Aug. 2QtJi,— Our guest became very uneasy when 

 he saw no canoes from the island coming ofF^ and no 

 symptoms of lowering a boat to land him. His 

 invitation to the shore and pantomime of killing a 

 pig were repeated time after time^ and he became 

 very despondent. Two canoes from the mainland 

 came along'side^ and he got into one which shoved 

 off, but quickly returned and put him on board^ as 

 they were not g'oing to the island. The poor fellow 



