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Ft'kndly Reception at 'Tongatahoo. — Manner of dijlribut- 

 in^ a baked H07 and Kava to Poidahd s Attejidants, — 

 The Obfcrvatory, ^c, ereSied. — The Village where the 

 Chiefs refidx^ and the adjoining Cowitry^ defcrihed, — 

 hitervieivs with Mareewagee^ and Toobou^ and the Kings 

 Son. — A grand Haiva^ or Entertain??ie?it of Songs 

 and Dances, given by Mareewagee. — Exhibition of Fire- 

 works. — Manner of Wreflling and Boxing, — Diflribu- 

 tioft of the Cattle. — Thefts committed by the Natives. — 

 Fotdahoy a?td the other Chiefs-) confined on that Account,, 

 — Poidaho s Prefenty and Haiva. 



,,77. ^OON after we had anchored, having firfl: dined, I 

 i_. ""—,.. I ^ landed, accompanied by Oraai, and Ibme of the Of- 

 Tuefday lo. ^j^^j-g '^yg found the king waiting for us upon the beach. 

 He, immediately, conducfted us to a fmall neat houfe, fitu- 

 ated a little within the fkirts of the woods, with a fine large 

 area before it. This houfe, he told me, was at my fervice, 

 during our ftay at the iiland ; and a better fituation we coiild 

 not wifli for. 



We had not been long in the houfe, before a pretty large 

 circle of the natives were afTembled before us, and feated 

 upon the area. A root of the kava plant being brought, and 

 laid down before the king, he ordered it to be fplit into pieces, 

 and diftributed to feveral people of both fexes, who began 



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