THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 309 



CHAP. VIIL 



Some of the Officers plundered by the Natives. — A jipDing 

 Party. — A Vift to Poiilaho. — A Fiatooka defer ibed. — ^> 

 Obfervations on the Cotmtry EntertatJjment at Poulahos 

 Houfe, — His Mourning Ceremony. — Of the Kava Plants 

 a7id the Mawier of preparing the Liquor. — Account of 

 Onevy, a little If and. — One of the Natives wotmded by 

 a Sentinel. — Meffrs. Kif2g and Anderfon vifit the Kings 

 Brother. — T'heir Kntertaintnent, — Another Mourni?ig 

 Ceremony. — Manner of p(ijf^^g the Night, — Rema?~ks o?t 

 the Country they pajfed through. — Preparations made 

 for failing. — An Eclipfe of the Sun^ imperfe&ly ob- 

 ferved. — Mr. Anderfon s Account of the Ifand^ and its 

 Produ&ions. 



S no more entertainments were to be expecT:ed, on 1777- 

 either fide, and the curiofity of the populace was, c^ -"-^ 

 by this time, pretty well fatisfied ; on the day after Poula- Sunday 22. 

 ho's haiva, moft of them left us. We Hill, however, had 

 thieves about us; and, encouraged by the negligence of 

 our own people, we had continual inflances of their depre- 

 dations. 



Some of the officers, belonging to both fliips, who had 



made an excurfion into the interior parts of the ifland, 



without my leave, and, indeed, without my knowledge^ 



returned this evening, after an abfence of two days. They 



9 had 



