134 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



During this concert, we faw arrive a great 

 number of iflanders, each carrying on the 

 ihoulder a long (tick, at the ends of which were 

 fufpendcd yams and fifh : of thefe they imme- 

 diately formed the bafeof a quadrangular pyra- 

 mid, which they raifed to nearly two meters. 

 This prefent was deftined for Admiral D'En- 

 trecafteaux, to whom Tinch was giving an en- 

 tertainment. She apprized us of the danger 

 that we incurred by walking alone in the ifland 

 towards the clofe of the day, afTuring us that 

 robbers might avail themfelves of the darknefs 

 of the night to aflault us with their clubs, and 

 plunder us. 



The Admiral fet out, on the 31 ft, at fix 

 o'clock in the morning, to comply with the 

 invitation of King T'(9<:'/'o;/, who propofcd to give 

 him an entertainment in the Ifland of Tonga- 

 taboo, We accompanied him, with almoft all 

 the officers of our expedition, and a detachment 

 well armed. 



Some natives, who followed us in their 

 canoes, made us for a time keep along the coaft 

 to the weflward, in order to conduct us to a 

 place where they told us that we fhould find a 

 y:vi-d.x number of the in::abitants affembled with 

 fcvcral of their chiefs. As foon as we wereiir- 

 r:vcd, Freiioii advanced to receive the Admiral, 



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