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wore a kind of gaiter, protecting the leg from the knee 

 to the ankle. 



Our guest appeared to be quite at his ease, and on 

 going round the ship, paid the most minute attention to 

 every object likely to interest a warlike people. The size 

 of the guns, weight of the shot, chain-cables and cook- 

 ing apparatus in the galley chiefly attracted his attention. 

 If I should venture to select any particular object which 

 appeared to make an impression of power, it certainly 

 was the chain-cable ; he recurred to it several times, and 

 observed, to use the interpreter's words, " he say must 

 have strong man do that work." His merriment was very 

 much excited at our sheep, goats, fowls, &c. ; "he say all 

 got proper house "; but in descending to the lower deck, 

 its comfort, arrangement of the seamens' messes, &c., a 

 sight of admiration at any time, even to our own 

 countrymen, perfectly astonished him. He trembled, I 

 even suspect, to find another world, and more men lower 

 down, and wished to return to the cabin, where he was 

 greatly delighted with the performance of a musical box. 



After partaking of sweetmeats and wines, &c., he ac- 

 quainted me that a greater General than himself, the 

 Commander of the forces, expected me to visit him at the 

 great island ; we therefore proceeded thither with our boat 

 force in state, taking every Officer who could be spared. 

 Having landed in a very convenient spot, sheltered by 

 two reefs, we were conducted to the presence of the Chief, 

 under a very miserable military tent, which would not 

 even shelter us from the sun, where we found him seated 

 within a space, enclosed on three sides by a folding 

 screen, so contrived as to form (by additional pieces) small 



