SKETCH OF THE BOOTHIANS. 59 



MILLUCTU, TOPAKA, AWACK [l\ AND ALLINACHRIU 



MiLLUCTU was one of those who was very much at the ship, and 

 was rather inclined to possess himself of what he saw, and was 

 particularly jealous of any one receiving more than himself; when 

 he perceived the quantity of wood which composed TuUuahiu's 

 wooden leg, he complained that he could not walk on his right 

 leg, and begged that he also might have a wooden one : when he 

 was told that of course his leg, like that of TuUuahiu, must be 

 taken off, he said he had not time, or that it was not convenient 

 now, and promised he would come to-morrow ; but when he came 

 he said that his leg ivas better. On another occasion when Ikmal- 

 lik was rewarded with a tin meat-case, for dancing like a bear, in a 

 ring formed by the women, he began also to exhibit ; but his per- 

 formance was so much inferior to his predecessor, that he only 

 excited laughter ; but seeing that he w s very much disappointed, 

 I gave him a tin case also, which turned the laugh on his side. He 

 was about twenty-five years of age, five feet foin- inches high, and 

 well made. He had a wife and two children ; and his mother, an 

 old woman named Topaka lived with him. This old lady was the 

 first who committed a theft, by stealing a pair of brass snuffers, 

 which was, however, found out by the rest, and immediately re- 

 turned. She was one of those who gleaned daily on the dunghill. 

 Awack (1) was a man about forty-five years of age, five feet three 



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