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THE CRUISE OF THE 'OUBAQOA.' 



tele, where I arrived all dripping with rain. I entered the 

 nearest house, and found there Mr. Carr, our i^hotographer, 

 busy dressing the wounds in one hand and leg which lie 

 had got in scaling the heights. 



The house belonged to an American of the name of 

 ]5raidwood, who had been settled in the island for two or 

 tlu'ce years, where he gained his livelihood by working for 

 the missionarv and natives. While a torrent of rain 



l'U\GA.SA, on MASSACRE BAY. 



detained us under Iiis roof, he had some ava prepared l)y 

 the villagers, who masticate it after the f;rshion of the 

 Hawaiians, of whi(h I drank about half a ]^int in a cocoa- 

 nut bowl. Tliis liquor appeared to me very weak, and I do 

 not recollect ever to have drank any that was more so in 

 the Sandwich Islands. Our host .said the natives never 

 make it strono-er in tlie Sa,moan otou]) than this he gave 

 us ; it (lid not at all meet the fancv of our sailors, llecol- 



