Il6 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



About nine o'clock in the morning, three 

 chiefs came on board, to announce to us that 

 we wcie prefently to receive a vifit from Toohou^ 

 fupreme zVi^i (egui la'i). of Tongataboo, Vavao, 

 Annamooka, &c.; that he was going to deliver 

 upto us the culprit whom we claimed, and to re- 

 llore us the mufket that he had ftolen. In fad:, 

 it was fcarcely eleven o'clock when 'Toobou ar- 

 rived with feverai chiefs. The criminal was 

 lying on his belly at the chief's feet, with his 

 hands tied behind his back, toobou immedi- 

 ately had him helped up the fide of the fliip, 

 and then gave orders for bringing the mufket, 

 with its bayonet fixed, which he had ftolen from 

 one of our fentinels. Two pieces of cloth, 

 made of the bark of the paper-mulberry, and 

 fo large that each, when opened out, would 

 have entirely covered our fliip, two hogs, and 

 feverai very large mats, were the prefents that 

 he made to the commander of the expedition. 

 The warrior Fccnon^ not difdaining to perform 

 the office of executioner, immediately raifed his 

 club, to knock the culprit in the head; and it 

 was no eafy matter to prevent him from doing 

 juftice before our faces : at le: gth he gave him 

 up to the Admiral's difpofal, thinkmg, no 

 doubt, tliat the latter wiHied to referve to him- 

 felf the fatisfacT:ion of making him futfer the 

 punimnjcnt due to his crime ; accordingly the 



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