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noil, and the ensign of the Tamahamaha, displayed 

 upon the ramparts of a fort mounting forty guns, 

 and at the gaff of a man-of-war brig, and of some 18 §j'. 

 other vessels, rendered the distinction between the 

 two countries still more evident ; and on landing, 

 the marked attention to etiquette and the respect 

 shown by the subjects to their chiefs offered a simi- 

 lar contrast. In every way this country seemed far 

 to surpass the other in civilization — but there were 

 strong indications of a close connexion between the 

 natives of both. 



It was not long since Lord Byron in the Blonde 

 had quitted these islands ; the appearance of a man- 

 of-war was, therefore, no novelty ; but the beach 

 was thronged to excess with people of all distinctions, 

 who behaved in a very orderly manner, helped us 

 out of the boats, and made a passage as we advanced. 

 In our way nothing more strikingly marked the 

 superiority of this country over that we had recently 

 quitted than the number of wooden houses, the 

 regularity of the town laid out in squares, intersect- 

 ed by streets properly fenced in, and the many no- 

 tices which appeared right and left, on pieces of 

 board on which we read " an Ordinary at one o'clock, 

 Billiards, the Britannia, the Jolly Tar, the Good Wo- 

 man," &c. After a short walk we came to a neatly 

 built wooden house with glass windows, the resi- 

 dence of Krimakoo, or, as he was commonly called, 

 Pitt, whom I found extended upon the floor of his 

 apartment, suffering under a dropsical complaint, 

 under which he ultimately sunk. This disease had 

 so increased upon him of late that he had under- 

 gone five operations for it since the departure of 

 the Blonde. Though unable to rise from his bed, 



