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the confequence of ufiiig opium, or other fubftances of that ^^77 

 kind. It fhoiild be obferved, at the fame time, that though 

 thefe iflandcrs have this liquor always frefli prepared, and I 

 have feen them drink it feven times before noon, it is, ne- 

 vx^rthelefs, fo difagreeable, or, at lead, feems fo, that the 

 greateft part of them cannot fwallow it without making wry 

 facesj and fhuddcring afterward." ' 



As foon as this mourning ceremony was over, wc left 

 Mooa, and fet out to return to the fhips. While we rowed 

 down the lagoon or inlet, we met with two canoes coming 

 in from fifhing. Poulaho ordered them to be called along- 

 fide our boat, and took from them every fifli and fbell they 

 bad got. He, afterward, flopped two other canoes, and 

 fearched them, but they had •nothing. Why this was done; 

 I cannot fay ; for we had plenty of provifions in the boar. 

 Some of this fifii he gave to me ; and his fervants fold the 

 reft on board the fliip. As v/e proceeded down the inlet, we ■ 

 overtook a large failing canoe. Every perfon on board hen 

 that was upon his legs when we came up, fat down till we 

 had paired ; even the man who fleered, though he could 

 not manage the helm, except in a flanding poflure. 



Poulaho, and others, having informed me, that there 

 was fome excellent water on Onevy, a little ifland, which 

 lies about a league oft the mouth of the inlet, and on 

 the North fide of the Eaflern channel, we Landed therei 

 in order to tafte it. But I found it to be as brackifh as 

 moft that we had met with. This ifland is quite in a 

 natural flate, being only frequented as a filliing place, 

 and has nearly the fame productions as Palmerfton's 

 Ifland, with fome etoa trees. After leaving Onevy, where 

 we dined, in our way to the fhip, we took a view of a cu-^ 

 rious coral rock, which feems to have been thrown upon 



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