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our boat. I defired to fee their method of fifhing ; which 

 they readily compHed with. A flioal of fifli was fuppofed 

 to be upon one of the banks, which they inftantly inclofed 

 in a long net like a feine, or fet-net. This tlie fifhers, one 

 getting into the water out of each boat, furrounded with 

 the triangular nets in their hands ; vrith which they fcooped 

 the fitli out of the feine, or caught them as they attempted 

 to leap over it. They fliewed us the whole procefs of this 

 operation (which feemed to be a fure one), by throwing in 

 fome of the fifli they had already caught ; for, at this time, 

 there happened to be none upon the bank that was in- 

 clofed. 



Leaving the prince and his fifhing party, we proceeded to 

 the bottom of the bay, and landed where we had done be- 

 fore, on our fruitlefs errand to fee Mareewagee. As foon 

 as we got on fliore, the king defired Omai to tell me, that I 

 need be under no apprehenfions about the boat, or any 

 thing in her, for no: a fingle article would be touched by 

 any one ; and we afterv/ard found this to be the cafe. We 

 were immediately condu6ted to one of Poulaho's houfes not 

 far off, and near the public one, or malaee, in which we had 

 been, when we firft vifited Mooa. This, though pretty 

 large, feemed to be his private habitation, and wasfituated 

 within a plantation. The king took his feat at one end of 

 the houfe, and the people, who came to vifit him, fat down, 

 as they arrived, in a femicircle at the other end. The firil 

 thing done, was to prepare a bowl of kava, and to order 

 fome yams to be baked for us. While thefe were getting 

 ready, fome of us, accompanied by a few of the king's at- 

 tendants, and Omai as our interpreter, walked out to take a 

 view of ;ijiatooka, or burying-place, which we had obl'erved 

 to be almofi clofe by the houfe, and was much more exten- 



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