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fond; on her landing she met Hercules (whom for the future 
I shall call by his real name Dootahah), and showed him her 
presents. He became uneasy, and was not satisfied till he 
also had got a doll, which he now seemed to prefer to a 
hatchet ; after this, however, dolls were of no value. 
29th. My first business this morning was to see that the 
butcher was punished, as I promised Tubourai and Tamio, 
and of which they had not failed to remind me yesterday, 
when the crowd of people who were with us had prevented 
its being carried out. I took them on board the ship, 
where Captain Cook immediately ordered the offender to be 
punished; they stood quietly and saw him stripped and 
fastened to the rigging, but as soon as the first blow was 
given, interfered with many tears, begging that the punish- 
ment might cease, a request which the captain would not 
comply with. 
At night I visited Tubourai, as I often did by candle- 
light, and found him and all his family in a most melancholy 
mood; most of them shed tears, so that I soon left them 
without being at all able to find out the cause of their grief. 
An old man had prophesied to some of our people that in 
four days we should fire our guns; this was the fourth night, 
and the circumstance of Tubourai crying over me, as we 
interpreted it, alarmed our officers a good deal; the sentries 
are therefore doubled, and we sleep to-night under arms. 
30th. A very strict watch was kept last night, as 
intended, and at two in the morning I myself went round 
the point, finding everything perfectly quiet. Our little 
fortification is now complete ; it consists of high breastworks 
at each end; the front palisades and the rear guarded by 
the river, on the bank of which we placed casks full of 
water: at every angle is mounted a swivel, and two carriage- 
guns pointed in the two directions by which the Indians 
might attack us out of the woods. Our sentries are also 
‘as well relieved as they could be in the most regular 
fortification. 
About ten, Tamio came running to the tents; she seized 
my hand and told me that Tubourai was dying, and that I 
