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CHAPTER IV. 



Further Remarks on the Inhabitants — Treaty of Alliance — Cli- 

 mate — Medicinal Properties of the Ava — Supplies — Departure 

 — Passage to China — Ladrone and Bashee Islands — Arrival at 

 Macao — Transactions there — Departure — Botel Tobago Xima 

 — Arrival at the Great Loo Choo. 



On the return of the ship to the Sandwich Islands 

 the chiefs were very anxious to learn where she had 

 been, and to be informed whether in some of the 

 countries she had visited, the produce of their domi- 

 nions might not find a favourable market. Kahu- 

 mana, in particular, was so much interested in these 

 inquiries that she condescended to direct her atten- 

 tion to them, and laid aside a missionary book with 

 which she had been instructing her mind while the 

 back part of her body was undergoing the soothing 

 operation of being pinched by one of her female 

 attendants. The conversation happening to turn upon 

 Bird Island, Boki, on hearing it was so near to the 

 Sandwich group, meditated its addition to the domi- 

 nions of the king, no doubt under the impression of 

 its being similar to one of the Sandwich Islands, and 

 was greatly disappointed when informed that the 

 island was not worth his possession. The account of 

 the high price of sugar in California quite put him in 

 good humour with his sugar-mills, which for some 



