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VOYAGE TO 



'777- two livine hoe;s, and a nuantity of bread-fruit, and cocoa- 



Septcmber. o o ' i j i zi • 



N— V- — ' nuts, were put into a canoe, and fent on board my lliip, 

 followed by myfelf, and all the royal family. 



Fridays. The following evening, a young ram, of the Cape breed, 



that had been lambed, and, with great care, brought up 

 on board the fhip, was killed by a dog. Incidents are of 

 more or lefs confequence, as conneded with fituation. In 

 our prefent fituation, dcfirous as I was to propagate this ufe- 

 ful race, amongft thefe iflands, the lofs of the ram was a 

 ferious misfortune ; as it was the only one I had of that 

 breed ; and I had only one of the Englifli breed left. 



Sunday 7. In the cveniug of the 7th, we played off fome fireworks 



before a great concourfe of people. Some were highly en- 

 tertained with the exhibition ; but by far the greater num- 

 ber of fpe6lators were terribly frightened ; infomuch, that 

 it was with difficulty we could prevail upon them to keep 

 together, to fee the end of the fhew. A table-rocket was 

 the laft. It flew oiF the table, and difperfed the whole 

 crowd in a moment ; even the mofl: refolute among them 

 fled with precipitation. 



Mondays. The ncxt day, a party of us dined with our former fliip- 

 mate, Oedidee, on filh and pork. The hog weighed about 

 thirty pounds ; and it may be worth mentioning, that it was, 

 alive, drcfled, and brouglit upon the table, within the hour. 

 Wc had but juft dined, when Otoo came, and aflced me, if 

 my belly was full? On my anfwering in the afiiimative, he 

 faid, " Then, come along with me." I, accordingly, went 

 with him to his father's, where I found fome people 

 employed in drefling two girls with a prodigious quantity of 

 flne cloth, after a very lingular falhion. The one end of each 

 piece of cloth, of which there were a good many, was held 



up 



