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cabin of the Recherche. They had each brought 

 with them a wooden pillow, of the form of 

 that reprefented in Plate XXXIII. Fig. 35; on 

 which, v/hen they had Iain down, they reded the 

 back of their head, according to the cuftom of 

 thefe people ; and this is undoubtedly the caufe 

 of the very evident flatnefs that is there obferv- 

 able. 



During the night, we perceived, on the 

 north coafl of Tongataboo, a greater number of 

 fires than we had before feen. 



Next morning, the 5th, at day-break, we 

 were waked by the piercing fhrieks of two 

 women, who were weeping as they condudled 

 their canoe round our fliip. They fhriekcd al- 

 ternately, one after the other, no doubt that 

 their voices mifiht be diftino-uifhed : and in- 

 deed l^itifa inftantly recognifed them : they 

 were his wife and daughter, who, in all the 

 agony of grief, were ftriking their cheeks and 

 breaft with their fills. He immediately ran 

 upon deck : he did not, however, fucceed in 

 quieting them till after he had given them an 

 account of the good treatment which he had 

 experienced on board ; but they were tranf- 

 ported with joy when he informed them that he 

 fliould foon return on friore. Very fliorcly after, 

 he o;ot into our launch with the fon of Kins; 

 Toohuy and we carried them both to the lOand 



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