l68 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



tives, obferving that we had received thefe with 

 pleafure, foon brought us more. 



Thefe people have invented a fort of Pan's 

 flute, which differs not from the E ropean one, 

 except in the proportion of its founds ; all the 

 tubes give full and not very extenfive notes, 

 and the higheil forms a fourth with the loweft. 

 We purchafed fever;. 1 of thefe fiiites. 



I obtained from the commander of the ex- 

 pedition a place on the larboard quarter-gallery, 

 and a large box, for putting there a few young 

 bread-fruit plants, in order to enrich our anio- 

 nics v/ith fo ufeful a vesretable. Some of the na- 

 tives procured me a great number of fuckers, 

 which I planted in very good mould that they 

 brought mCj calling it keleekelee. lalfo tookfome 

 roots and flumps of this valuable tree, which I 

 buried in potter's earth, in their language, 

 owmmea, placing them horizontally. Thefe 

 ilumps were fo many flips which I purpofed 

 planting out on our arrival at the Ifle of France, 



On the yth of April, Queen lineh came on 

 board at the very time when Feencu was in the 

 Admiral's cabin^ to whom he had brought as a 

 prefent a crown made of the beautiful feathers 

 of the red-fliafted tropic bird, with other very 

 fmall ones of a bright red. When he came 

 out, in order to return on fliore, he endeavour- 

 ed to cDnce?d himfelf from the fight of the 



Queen j 



