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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 Tubourat 
Tamaide, his wife Tanvio, 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 
