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•'77- ■ night after. My female phyficians repeated their prefcrip- 



^ '-— ^ tion the next morning, before they went afhore. and again, 



in the evening, when they returned on board ; after which, 

 I found the pains entirely removed ; and the cure being 

 WeJnff. 2+. pcrfe(5led, they took their leave of me the following morn- 

 ing. This they call romee; an operation which, in m}'' opi- 

 nion, far exceeds the flefli-brufli, or any thing of the kind 

 that we make ufe of externally. It is univerfally pracftifed 

 amongft thefe iflanders ; being fometimes performed by the 

 men, but more generally by the women. If, at any time, 

 one appears languid and tired, and fits down by any of 

 them, they immediately begin to pradifc the rottiee' \xi)on 

 his legs ; and I have always found it to have an exceedingly 

 good effedl *. 



Thurrday 25. ^n the morning of the 2 j-th, Otoo, Mr. King, and Omai, 

 returned from Attahooroo; and Mr. King gave me the fol- 

 lowing account of what he had feen : 



" Soon after you left me, a fccond meflcnger came from 

 Towha to Otoo, with a plantain-tree. It was funfct when 

 we embarked in a canoe and left Oparre. About nine o'clock 

 we landed at Tcttaha, at that extremity which joins to Atta- 

 hooroo. Before we landed, the people called to us from 

 the fliore ; probably, to tell us that Towha was there. The 

 meeting of Otoo and this Chief, I cxpeclcd, would alTord 

 fome incident worthy of obfervation. Otoo, and his attend- 

 ants, went and featcd themfclvcs on the beach, clofc to 

 the canoe in which Towha was. He was then aflecp; but 

 his fervants having awakened him, and mentioning Otoo's 

 name, immediately a plantain-tree and a dog, were laid at 



• Sec Captain Wallis's account of the fame operation performed on himfclf, and 

 bis firft Lieutenant, in Hauirf worth's CtHc^ioHy Vd. i. p. 463. 



t Otoo's 



