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confiflenrc of a pudding, firfl: mixinoj with it 

 fome l-rcad-fiuif jccrrtly boiled; they then 

 fcinied it into balls, which they ate in:ime- 

 diately. 



We obfcrvcd, under a laig;e fhed, a double 

 canoe, twelve meters long, which the native.^ 

 had put there to be fhcltered from the incle- 

 mency of the weather. 



We were pretty near the fmall illand called 

 Nougoii-noiigGii, when fome inhabitants pointed 

 out to us, under the name o^ Ivlackaha, an iflot 

 very near to Panga'iniatoo. We proceeded to- 

 wards this laft mentioned ifiand ; and as the 

 tide was comino; in, we were obliged, in order 

 to get there, to walk into the water up to our 

 middle. Prefently we arrived at the place 

 where the Queen regularly held her court; it 

 was at a fmall difla ice from our market, under 

 the fhadeof a very tufted bread-fruit tree. She 

 was there giving a vocal concert, in which 

 Fiittafaihe fang and beat iixwt^ which all the 

 muiicians followed with the o;reateft cxacl- 

 ncf'". Some performed their part in it, by ac- 

 companying, with different modulations, the 

 fimple mielodv of the others. \ v e now and then 

 remarked fome difcordant notes, wirh which, 

 however, the car of thefe people fecmed very 

 Duich gratified. 



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