94 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



The Admiral had com mi (Honed one of the 

 officers to treat with the illanders for the pro- 

 vilions that they migiit '^e ar.Ic to furnifh us 

 and to avoid all competition, which would have 

 been prejudicial :.? the victualling of our lliips, 

 he had prohibited every other peiTon to traffic ; 

 but it was impoffible to enforce ftridily the exe- 

 cution of this order. Befides, it was not eafy 

 to refifl" the cagernefs which the natives exprelT- 

 ed in difpoling of their commodities ; every 

 one difplaycd his own to the bef!: advantage. 

 We were exceedingly amufed to fee them hold 

 under their arm their little pigs, Vvhich they 

 from time to time pulled hy the ears, in order 

 to let us know that they v.ifned to fell them. 



A chief of the warrior^, i amed F:cnou, came 

 on board about five o'clock in the afternoon. 

 He was a man about forty-iive years of age, of 

 a middle fize, and very fat. Like the other 

 inhabitants, he had all the features of an Euro- 

 pean. His body was covered with fears in fe- 

 veral places ; he made us notice two on his 

 breafl, which, he told us, were theconfequences 

 of wounds that he had received from darts in 

 different battles with the inhabitants of FiJo'i. 



The portrait of this warrior, Philc VIIJ, 

 Fig. 2, is a llriking like;:iefs; his hair, pow- 

 dered with chalk, was drclfed in fuch a man- 

 ner that it mi;/;ht have been taken for a wig. 



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