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of very great value. I faid all that I could to perfuade him '777- 

 not to produce it now, wilhing him to keep it on board till an v— »,--~» 

 opportunity fliould offer of prefenting it to Otoo, with his 

 own hands. But he had too good an opinion of the honefty 

 and fidelity of his countrymen to take my advice. Nothing 

 would ferve him, but to carry it afhore, on this occajSon, 

 and to give it to Waheiadooa, to be by him forwarded to 

 Otoo, in order to its being added to the royal ;«^ro. Bethought, 

 by this management, that he Ihould oblige both Chiefs; 

 whereas he highly difobliged the one, whofe favour was of 

 the moft confcqucnce to him, without gaining any reward 

 from the other. What I had forefecn happened. For Wa- 

 heiadooa kept the maro for himfelf, and only fcnt to Otoo a 

 very fmall piece of feathers ; not the twentieth part of what 

 belonged to the magnificent prefent. 



On the 19th, this young Chief made me a prefent of ten Tuefday 19. 

 or a dozen hogs, a quantity of fruit, and fome cloth. In 

 the evening, we played off fome fireworks, which both afto. 

 niflied and entertained the numerous fpcclators. 



This day, fome of our gentlemen, in their walks, found, 

 what they were pleafed to call, a Roman Catholic chapel. 

 Indeed, from their account, this was not to be doubted ; for 

 they defcribed the altar, and every other conftituent part of 

 fuch a place of worlhip. However, as they mentioned, at the 

 fame time, that two men, who had tlie care of it, would not 

 fuffer them to go in, I thought that they might be miftaken, 

 and had the curiofity to pay a vifit to it myfelf. The fuppofed 

 chapel proved to be 3, toopapaoo, in which the remains of the 

 late Waheiadooa lay, as it were, in flate. It was in a pretty 

 large houfe, which was inclofed with a low paliifade. 

 The toopapaoo was uncommonly neat, and rcfembled one 



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