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chor, at a musket-shot from the shore, opposite the 

 fortress, in eight fathoms water. Young now came 

 on board, to inform me that the canoes did not 

 belong to the king, and that we must pay every 

 owner three piastres j but, on tlie other hand, I, 

 as commander of a ship of war, was exempted from 

 paying anchorage. * Though 1 thought it singidar 

 that I should not have been informed of this be- 

 fore, I was obliged to submit to the laws, and pay 

 forty piastres. We had scarcely cast anchor when 

 a great number of native women surrounded the 

 Rurick, some in boats, and others swimming j they 

 all wanted to come on board, and were angry at 

 being refused admittance. I had declared the 

 ship taboo for some days, to be able to do some 

 necessary work. The amiable nymphs sang to us 

 some love-songs, and turned back much astonished 

 at our cruelty. 



The 29th. They began to-day to supply us with 

 provisions, according to Tamaahmaah's order. 

 We daily received taro, yams, cocoa-nuts, bana- 

 nas, and water-melons, in abundance. The hogs 

 are so large, that the whole crew could not eat one 

 in two days, so that more than half of what we re- 

 ceived remained over, part of which I salted, and 

 took the other part with me alive. Pork is salted 

 here so very excellently by a Spaniard of the name 



* It is a law here, that all merchant vessels must pay, accord- 

 ing to their depth, one piastre per foot anchorage. 



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