178 CHANGE NAMES WITH DOODEGAB. 



stantly seemed to comprehend, and for some time 

 called me Doodegab, while he assumed my name, 

 which he pronounced as if spelt Dookees. 



They all seemed to be everlastingly eating, now a 

 plantain, then a ketai, then a cocoa-nut, with occa- 

 sional " plats" of small fish, or of roasted shell fish, 

 principally trochus, and sometimes crabs, and other 

 Crustacea. 



As I had a curiosity to see where the path at the 

 back of the huts went to, I strolled along it, but 

 was presently stopped by a man who called me back, 

 and detained me till two young girls came down the 

 path with a large shell full of water. He then 

 seemed no longer to have any great objection to my 

 proceeding, and Doodegab coming up accompanied 

 me. The path led through a small plantation ground, 

 and then by the side of a small dry water-course, 

 for three or four hundred yards, till it came to a 

 water-hole, in which there were several gallons of 

 fresh water, of very middling quality. 



A boat now came ashore, 

 with Mr. Bell, to try and 

 get some vegetables which 

 they had promised to have 

 ready. He only succeeded, 

 however, in getting a few 

 branches of plantains for 

 several axes. I purchased 

 for a knife a curious tor- 

 toise-shell mask, or face, 



