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different colours, and a great quantity of ar- 

 ticles of hardware, in order to procure us 

 frcfli provifions in exchange. As the inhabi- 

 tants brought us a great many hogs; the Ad- 

 miral refolved to renew our flock of fait pork. 

 Citizen Rcnard, one of the furgeons of our 

 expedition, readily undertook to fuperintend 

 this bulinefs. 



An enclofure was marked out with a rope 

 faflened to the extremity of ftakes fixed in the 

 ground at the diftance of four or five meters 

 from each other. With fuch barriers it was 

 propofed to reflrain, night and day, the inha- 

 bitants, upwards of two thoufand of whom, 

 ino(\ly arrived from Tongataboo^ were already 

 colledled round us. 



Fnttafaihcy one of the fons of the late King 

 Poulabo, repaired very early in the morning to 

 the fame fpot. He undertook to keep the natives 

 in good order; and indeed the traffic was car- 

 ried on with the G;rearcft tranquillity; but \\c 

 faw with concern, that, in order to make him- 

 felf obeyed, he employed means equally cruel 

 towards them, and laborious to himfelf ; for if 

 any one of them otiered to pafs only a few deci- 

 meters beyond tlie line which bad been drawn, 

 immediately, to \\arn him to keep back, he 

 threw at him every thing that came in his way, 

 -regardlcfs of the bad confcqucnces that might 



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