50 THE CRUISE OF THE 'OUBA(JOA.' 



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

 nearest house, and found there Mr. Can^, our photographer, 

 busy di'essing the wounds in one hand and leg which he 

 had got in scaling the heights. 



The house belonged to an American of the name of 

 Braidwood, who had been settled in the island for two or 

 three years, where he gained his livelihood by working for 

 the missionary and natives. While a torrent of rain 





FUNGASA, OR MASSACRE BAT. 



detained us under his roof, he had some ava prepared by 

 the villagers, who masticate it after the fashion of tlie 

 Hawaiians, of which I drank about half a pint in a cocoa- 

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

 not recollect ever to have di-ank any that was more so in 

 the Sandwich Islands. Our host said the natives never 

 make it stronger in the Samoan group than this he gave 

 us ; it did not at all meet the fancy of our sailors. Eecol- 



