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been wounded, but not danfferoufly, with a mufket ball. I ^ni- 



. -, June, 



never could find out how this mulliet happened to be charged u — , 1 



with ball ; and there were people enough ready to fwear, 

 that its contents were only fmall fliot. 



Mr. Anderfon's account of the excurfion, jufl; mentioned, 

 will fill up an interval of two days, during which nothing 

 of note happened, at the fliips : " Mr. King and I went, on the 

 30th, along with Futtafaihe as vifiters to his houfe, which Monday 30. 

 is at M002, very near that of his brother Poulaho. A flioit 

 time after we arrived, a pretty large hog was killed ; which 

 is done by repeated flrokes on the head. The hair was then 

 fcraped off, very dextroufly, with the fharp edge, of pieces 

 of fplit bamboo ; taking the entrails out at a large oval hole 

 cut in the belly, by the fame fimple inftrument. Before 

 this, they had prepared an oven ; which is a large hole dug 

 in the earth, filled at the bottom with flones, about the fizc 

 of the fift, over which a fire is made till they are red hot. 

 They took fome of thefe flones, wrapt up in leaves of tlie 

 bread-fruit tree, and filled the hog's belly, fluffing in a 

 quantity of leaves, to prevent their falling out, and putting 

 a plug of the fame kind in the anus. The carcafe was then 

 placed on fome flicks laid acrofs the flones, in a flanding 

 pofture, and covered with a great quantity of plantain 

 leaves. After which, they dug up the earth, all round ; 

 and having thus effecflually clofed the oven, the operation 

 of baking required no farther interference. 



In the mean time, we walked about the country, but met 

 with nothing remarkable, except a fatooka of one houfe, 

 {landing on an artificial mount, at leafl tlurty feet high. A 

 little oa one fide of it, was a pretty large open area ; and, 

 not far off, was a good deal of uncultivated ground ; which, 

 on inquiring, why it lay wafte ; our guides feemed to fay, 



Vot. I. T t belonged 



