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I signed to him that the man should be punished to-morrow 

 if he would only clearly explain the offence, which made 

 him so angry that his signs were almost unintelligible. He 

 grew cooler, and showed me that the butcher had taken 

 a fancy to a stone hatchet lying in his house ; this he offered 

 to purchase for a nail ; his wife who was there, refused to 

 part with it, upon which he took it up and, throwing down 

 the nail, threatened to cut her throat if she attempted to 

 hinder him. In evidence of this the hatchet and nail were 

 produced, and the butcher had so little to say in his defence 

 that no one doubted of his guilt ; after this we parted and 

 he appeared satisfied, but did not forget to put me in 

 mind of my promise that the butcher should to-morrow be 

 punished. 



This day we found that our friends had names, and they 

 were not a little pleased to discover that we had them 

 likewise. For the future Lycurgus will be called Tubourai 

 Tamaide, his wife Tamio, and the three women who commonly 

 came with him, Terapo, Teraro, and Omie. As for our 

 names, they make so poor a hand at pronouncing them that 

 I fear we shall each be obliged to take a new one for 

 the occasion. 



After breakfast Jno. Molineux came ashore, and the 

 moment he entered the tent, fixed his eyes upon a woman 

 who was sitting there, and declared that she had been the 

 queen when the Dolphin was here. She also instantly acknow- 

 ledged him as a person whom she had seen before. Our 

 attention was now entirely diverted from every other object 

 to the examination of a personage we had heard of so much 

 of in Europe ; she appeared to be about forty, tall, and very 

 lusty, her skin white and her eyes full of meaning; she 

 might have been handsome when young, but now few or no 

 traces of it were left. 



As soon as her Majesty's quality was known to us, she 

 was invited to go on board the ship, where no presents were 

 spared that were thought to be agreeable to her in consider- 

 ation of her services to the Dolphin. Among other things 

 a child's doll was given to her, of which she seemed very 



