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extraordinary likenesses. Even Tamaalunaah look- 

 ed with surprise at the work of M. Choris, but long 

 resisted my entreaties to suffer himself, as they here 

 express it, to be transferred to paper: probably, 

 because he connected some idea of magic with 

 this art. It was not till I had represented to him, 

 how happy our emperor would be to possess his 

 likeness, that he consented, and, to my great as- 

 tonishment, M. Choris succeeded in taking a very 

 good likeness of him, though Tamaahmaah, in 

 order to embarrass him, did not sit still a moment, 

 and made all kinds of faces, in spite of my en- 

 treaties. At five o'clock in the afternoon, we took 

 leave of the king, who again repeated that we should 

 want for nothing in the island of Woahoo. As our 

 companion had not yet arrived, I promised to lay- 

 to, near the coast, to wait for him. He considered 

 as a great rarity, a handsome tame horse, which 

 the king had received from America, by an Ameri- 

 can ship, and which he suffered to run about un- 

 restrained. A number of little boys had trodden 

 the sand on the shore quite smooth, and with the 

 assistance of a stick, had with much skill drawn 

 the Rurick under sail. I was obliged, though with 

 great regret, to part from Elliot de Castro, who 

 had promised to accompany me to Woahoo; but 

 the king wished to have his physician and Naja 

 again about him, and tliis request I could not refuse. 

 Without the presence of Mr. Elliot, we should 

 probably have fallen victims to the faults of others j 



