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carried farther. The houses, which, as I have 

 observed before, are all open, except a roof, afforded 

 no place of retirement ; but the ladies, by fre- 

 quently pointing to the mats upon the ground, 

 and sometimes seating themselves and drawing us 

 down upon them, left us no room to doubt of their 

 being much less jealous of observation than we 

 were. 



We now took leave of our friendly chief, and 

 directed our course along the shore. When we had 

 walked about a mile, we met, at the head of a great 

 number of people, another chief, whose name was 

 TouBOURAi Tamaide, with w^hom w^e were also to 

 ratify a treaty of peace, with the ceremony of which 

 we were now become better acquainted. Having 

 received the branch which he presented to us, and 

 given another in return, we laid our hands upon our 

 left breasts, and pronounced the word Taio, which 

 we supposed to signify friend ; the chief then 

 gave us to understand, that if we chose to eat, he 

 had victuals ready for us. We accepted his offer, 

 and dined very heartily upon fish, bread-fruit, cocoa- 

 nuts, and plantains, dressed after their manner : they 

 eat some of their fish raw ; and raw fish was offered 

 to us, but we declined that part of the entertain- 

 ment. 



During this visit a wife of our noble host, whose 

 name was Tomio, did Mr. Banks the honour to place 

 herself upon the same mat, close by him. Tomio 

 was not in the first bloom of her youth, nor did she 

 appear to have been ever remarkable for her beauty ^ 

 he did not, therefore, I believe, pay her the most 

 flattering attention : it happened, too, as a farther 

 mortification to this lady, that seeing a very pretty 

 girl among the crowd, he, not adverting to the 

 dignity of his companion, beckoned her to come to 

 him : the girl, after some entreaty, complied, and 

 sat down on the other side of him : he loaded her 

 with beads, and every showy trifle that would please 



