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'777- felf. I attended the Chief in my own boat, having firfl 



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made prefents to him, of fuch articles as, I could obferve, 

 he valued much, and were even beyond his expectation to 

 receive. I was not difappointed in my view of thus fecur- 

 ing his friendfhip ; for the moment the boat reached the 

 beach, and, before he quitted her, he ordered two more 

 hogs to be brought, and delivered to my people to be con- 

 veyed on board. He was then carried out of the boat, by 

 fome of his own people, upon a board refembling a hand- 

 barrow, and went and feated himfelf in a fmall houfe near 

 the fhore ; which feemed to have been ere(5ted there for his 

 accommodation. He placed me at his fide; and his attend- 

 ants, who were not numerous, feated themfelves in a femi- 

 circle before us, on the outfide of the houfe. Behind the 

 Chief, or rather on one fide, fat an old woman, v/ith a fort 

 of fan in her hand, whofe ofEce it was to prevent his being 

 peftered with the flies. 



The feveral articles which his people had got, by trading 

 on board the fliips, were now difplayed before him. He 

 looked over them all, with attention, inquired what they 

 had given in exchange, and feemed pleafed with the bar- 

 gains they had made. At length, he ordered every thing to 

 be reftored to the refpedtive owners, except a glafs bowl, 

 with which he was fo much pleafed, that he referved it for 

 himfelf. The perfons who brought thefe things to him, 

 firll fquatted themfelves down before him, then they depo- 

 fited their feveral purchafes, and immediately rofe up and 

 retired. The fame refpedful ceremony was obferved in 

 taking them away ; and not one of them prefumed to fpeak 

 to him {landing. I flayed till feveral of his attendants lefc 

 him, firfl paying him obeifance, by bowing the head down 

 to the fole of his foot, and touching or tapping the fame,, 

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