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'779- Kancena took him up in his arms, and threw him into the 



January. 



v.. _.,— _i fea. 



Both thefe chiefs were men of flrong and well-pro- 

 portioned bodies, and of countenances remarkably pleafing. 

 Kaneena efpecially, whofe portrait Mr. Webber has drawn, 

 was one of the fineft men I ever faw. He was about fix feet 

 high, had regular and expreffive features, with lively, dark 

 eyes j his carriage was eafy, firm, and graceful. 



It has been already mentioned, that during our long 

 cruize ofT this ifland, the inhabitants had always behaved 

 with great fairnefs and honefty in their dealings, and had 

 not fhewn the flighted propenfity to theft ; which appeared 

 to us the more extraordinary, becaufc thofe with whom we 

 had hitherto held any intercourfe, were of the loweft rank, 

 either fervants or fifhermen. We now found the cafe ex- 

 ceedingly altered. The immenfe crowd of iflanders, which 

 blocked up every part of the lliips, not only afforded fre- 

 quent opportunity of pilfering without rilk of difcovery, 

 but our inferiority in number held forth a profpect of 

 efcaping with impunity in cafe of detection. Another cir- 

 cumftance, to which we attributed this alteration in their 

 behaviour, was the prcfence and encouragement of their 

 chiefs ; for generally tracing the booty into the poffeflion 

 of fomc men of confcqucnce, we had the flrongeft reafon 

 to fufpect that thefe depredations were committed at their 

 infligation. 



Soon after the Refolution had got into her ftation, our 

 two friends, Pareea and Kancena, brought on board a third 

 chief, named Koah, who, we were told, was a prieft, and 

 had been, in his youth, a diflinguifhed warrior. He was 



a little 



