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CHAP. VI. 



Defcriptio7i of Lefooga. — Its cultivated State. — Its Ex- 

 tent. — T7-anfa&ions there. — A Female Oculiji — Sin- 

 gular Expedients for JJjavi?tg off the Hair.— The Shps 

 change their Station, — A rema?'kabie Mount and Stone. 

 — Defa'iption of Hoolaiva. — Account of Poulaho^ King 

 of the Friendly Ifafids. — RefpeEijul Manner in which 

 he is treated by his People. — Departw^e. from the 

 Hapaee Iflands — Some Accou7it of Kotoo — Retur7i of 

 the Ships to A?iJ!a?nooka. — Pouluho and Feenou fneet.—^ 

 Arrival at Tongataboo. 



Mly! /CURIOSITY, on both fides, being now fuffidenrly 

 *■ — ->- — ' V^ gratified, by the exhibition of the various entertain- 

 ments I have defcribed, I began to have time to look about 

 Wednef. 21. me. Accordingly, next day, I took a walk into the ifland of 

 Lefooga, of which I was defirous to obtain fome know- 

 ledge. I found it to be, in feveral refpecTts, fuperior to An- 

 namooka. The plantations were both more numerous, and 

 more extenfive. In many places, indeed, toward the fea, efpe- 

 cially on the Eaft fide, the country is ftill wafte ; ovvring, 

 perhaps, to the fandy foil; as it is much lower than Anna- 

 mooka, and its furrounding ifles. But, toward the middle 

 of the ifland, the foil is better ; and the marks of confider- 

 able population, and of improved cultivation, were very 

 confpicuous. For we met here with very large plantations, 

 X inclofed 



