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unfolded a bundle of his country cloth, and taking 

 out two garments, one of red cloth, and the other of 

 very neat matting, he clothed Mr. Banks in them, 

 and without any other ceremony, immediately con- 

 ducted him back to the tent. His attendants soon 

 after brought him some pork and bread-fruit, which 

 he ate, dipping his meat into salt water instead of 

 sauce : after his meal he retired to Mr. Banks's bed, 

 and slept about an hour. In the afternoon, his wife 

 Tomio brought to the tent a young man about two- 

 and-twenty years of age, of a very comely appear- 

 ance, whom they both seemed to acknowledge as 

 their son, though we afterwards discovered that he 

 was not so. In the evening, this young man and an- 

 other chief, who had also paid us a visit, went away 

 to the westward, but Tubourai Tamaide and his wife 

 returned to the awning in the skirts of the wood. 



Our surgeon, Mr. Monkhouse, having walked out 

 this evening, reported, that he had seen the body of 

 the man who had been shot at the tents, which he 

 said was wrapped in cloth, and placed on a kind of 

 bier, supported by stakes, under a roof that seemed 

 to have been set up for the purpose : that near it were 

 deposited some instruments of war and other things, 

 which he would particularly have examined but for 

 the stench of the body, which was intolerable. He 

 said, that he saw also two more sheds of the same 

 kind, in one of which were the bones of a human 

 body that had lain till they were quite dry. We dis- 

 covered afterwards, that this was the way in which 

 they usually disposed of their dead. 



A kind of market now began to be kept just with- 

 out the lines, and was plentifully supplied with every 

 thing but pork. Tubourai Tamaide was our constant 

 guest, imitating our manners, even to the using of a 

 knife and fork, which he did very handily. 



As my curiosity was excited by Mr. Monkhouse's 

 account of the situation of the man who had been 

 shot, I took an opportunity to go with some others to 



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