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?,777- board for my dinner. I invited Feenou, and his friends, to 



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< ,/ \ partake of it ; and we embarked for the fliip ; but none but 



himfelf fat down with us at the table. After dinner I con- 

 duced them on fhore; and, befcre I returned on board, the 

 Chief gave me a fine large turtle, and a quantity of yams. 

 Our fupply of provifions was copious; for, in the courfe of 

 the day, we got, by barter, along-fide the fliip, about twenty 

 fmall hogs, befide fruit and roots. I was told, that, on my firfl 

 landing in the morning, a man came off to the fliips, and 

 ordered every one of tlie natives to go on fliore. Probably, 

 this was done with a view to have the whole body of inha- 

 bitants prefent at the ceremony of my reception ; for when 

 that was over, multitudes of them returned again to the 

 fhips. 



Sunday 18. Ncxt momiug early, Feenou, and Omai, who fcarcely 

 ever quitted the Chief, and now flept on fliore, came on 

 board. The obje6l of the vifit, was to require my prefence 

 upon the ifland. After fome time, I accompanied them ; 

 and, upon landing, was condu6led to the fame place where 

 I had been feared the day before ; and where I faw a large 

 conco'.irfe of people already aflembled. I guefTcd that 

 fomething more than ordinary was in agitation; but could 

 not tell what, nor could Omai inform me. 



I had not been long feated, before near a hundred of the 

 natives appeared ia fight, and advanced, laden with yams^ 

 bread-fruit, plantains, cocoa-nuts, and fugar-canes. They 

 depofited their burdens, in two heaps, or piles, upon our 

 left, being the fide they came from. Soon after, an-ived a 

 number of others from the right, bearing the fame kind 

 of articles -, which were collecTbcd into two piles upon that 

 fide. To thefc were tied two pigs, and fix fowls ; and to 



thofe, 



