184 PRESENTS TO THE ROYAL FAMILY. 
appeared tu excite some astonishment; but my 
assertion concerning its spherical form still 
gained but small credit. 
I then produced some presents for the Queen, 
her family, and their immediate attendants, 
which, though in themselves extremely trifling, 
were received with great pleasure, and produced 
a degree of hilarity little consistent with the 
symbols of mourning worn by the Royal party, 
or the feelings they had displayed on their first 
arrival. 
To the Queen I presented a piece of calico 
four or five yards long, a coloured silk hand- 
kerchief, a small looking-glass, a pair of scis- 
sors, and some glass beads; to the young Prin- 
cess, a silk handkerchief, beads, and a looking- 
glass; to the sisters of the Queen, cotton hand- 
kerchiefs, glasses, and scissors ; their attendants, 
among whom were four ladies, were content 
with knives. 
During this time the Master of the Ceremo- 
nies had killed the pig, and baked it in the 
earth in the Tahaitian manner. As soon as 
the Royal Family had resumed their seats he 
brought it in, and placed it before the Queen, 
