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must be deferred till the morrow. He was a merry, 

 active, good-humoured fellow, and gave us a number 

 of songs, one of which I wrote down. Although 

 unfortunately I cannot give an accompanying 

 translation, yet this song exhibits the remarkable 

 softness of the language from the great number of 

 vowels. 



Atna watiiya boyama 



Manyure gerri gege udaeno 



Dagi ginoa dagi gino ama 

 Watu yebbo. 



Manyure gerri gege udaeno 

 Dagi egino da' gino ama 



Watu yebbo — watu yebbo. 



Most of them — perhaps all — were extempore, as 

 on turning his attention to the moon, he struck up 

 a song in which the name of that body was fre- 

 quently mentioned. He was treated to an exhibition 

 of the magic lantern in the cabin by Capt. Stanley, 

 and a rocket was sent up to his great astonishment 

 and admiration, which he found words to express in 

 " haiwa" (fire) " haiwa, oh 1 dim dim !" 



Aug. 2Gtk.— Our guest became very uneasy when 

 he saw no canoes from the island coming off, and no 

 symptoms of lowering a boat to land him. His 

 invitation to the shore and pantomime of killing a 

 pig were repeated time after time, and he became 

 very despondent. Two canoes from the mainland 

 came alongside, and he got into one which shoved 

 off, but quickly returned and put him on board, as 

 they were not going to the island. The poor fellow 



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