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'777- fame office to the corpfe of another perfon of inferior rank^ 



June. 



^— -> ' and was now under the fame reftridlion ; but not for io 



long a time. At another place, hn-rd by, we faw another 

 woman fed j and we learnt, that flie had affifted in wafhing 

 tlic Gorpfe of the above-mentioned Chief. 



Sajurdayai,. Early the next morning, the king came on board, to in- 

 ■ vite me to an entertainment, which he propofed to give the 

 fame day. He had already been under the barber's hands j 

 his head being all befmeared with red pigment, in order 

 to redden his hair, which was naturally of a dark brown 

 colour. After breakfaft, I attended him to the fliore; and 

 we found his people very bufy, in two places, in the front 

 of our area, fixing, in an upright and fquare pofition, 



thus [ o o ]» ^^^^ "^'^'T ^*^"S polls, near two feet from each 

 other. The fpacc between the polls was afterward filled 

 up with yams ; and as they went on filling it, they faften- 

 cd pieces of flicks acrofs, from poll to poll, at the diflance of 

 about every four feet ; to prevent the pods from feparating, 

 by the weight of the inclofed yams, and aifo to get-up 

 by. When the yams had reached the top of the firlt pofts, 

 they faftened others to them, and fo continued till each 

 pile was the height of thirty feet, or upward. On the 

 top of one, they placed two baked hogs ; and on the top of 

 the other, a living one ; and another they tied by the legs, 

 half-way up. It was matter of curiofity to obferve, with 

 what facility and difpatch thcfe two piles were raifed. Had 

 our feamen been ordered to execute fuch a work, they 

 would have fworn that it could not be performed with- 

 out carpenters ; and the carpenters vsrould have called to 

 iheir aid a dozen different forts of tools, and have cx~ 

 pended, at leafi:, a hundred weight of nails ; and, after all, 

 it would have employed them as many days, as it did 



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