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but about ten o'clock in tlie morning, Tomio came 

 running to the tents, with a mixture of grief and fear 

 in her countenance, and taking Mr. Banks, to whom 

 they applied in every emergency and distress, by the 

 arm, intimated that Tubourai Tamaide was dying, 

 in consequence of something which our people had 

 given him to eat, and that he must instantly go witli 

 her to his house. Mr. Banks set out without delay, 

 and found his Indian friend leaning his head against 

 a post, in an attitude of the utmost languor and de- 

 spondency : the people about him intimated that he 

 had been vomiting, and brought out a leaf folded 

 up with great care, which they said contained some 

 of the poison, by the deleterious effects of which he 

 was now dying. Mr. Banks hastily opened the leaf, 

 and upon examining its contents found them to be 

 no other than a chew of tobacco, which the chief 

 had begged of some of our people, and which they 

 had indiscreetly given him : he had observed that 

 they kept it long in the mouth, and being desirous 

 of doing the same, he had chewed it to powder, and 

 swallowed the spittle. During the examination of 

 the leaf and its contents, he looked up at Mr. Banks 

 with the most piteous aspect, and intimated that he 

 had but a very short time to live. Mr. Banks, how- 

 ever, being now master of his disease, directed him 

 to drink plentifully of cocoa-nut milk, which in a 

 short time put an end to his sickness and apprehen- 

 sions ; and he spent the day at the fort with that 

 uncommon flow of cheerfulness and good humour 

 which is always produced by a sudden and unexpect- 

 ed relief from pain either of body or mind. 



Captain Wallis having brought home one of the 

 adzes which these people, having no metal of any 

 kind, make of stone, Mr. Stevens, the secretary to 

 the Admiralty, procured one to be made of iron in 

 imitation of it, which I brought out w^ith me, to 

 show how much we excelled in making tools after 

 their own fashion : this I had not yet produced, as 



