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tecting the whites, and of punishing those who molest and take 

 from them their goods in case of shipwreck. He listened to me very 

 patiently, and said, " he had always done so ; that my advice was very 

 good, but he did not need it; that I must give plenty of it to his son 

 Seru, and talk hard to him; that he would in a short time be king, 

 and needed it." 



We now proceeded to show them the ship. Tanoa expressed great 

 astonishment at the wheel, and the manner of steering our large canoe 

 or man-of-war. I told him I was going to order some guns to be fired 

 with balls, when he immediately expressed his joy at it, saying that 

 he thought I was offended with him, from my not firing when he 

 came on board. On my telling him it was not so, but that he must 

 consider it more honourable to him to fire balls, he was well satisfied. 

 It was amusing to see the curiosity excited among them all, when 

 they understood the large guns were to be fired. On the firing 

 taking place, they all made an exclamation of surprise and astonish- 

 ment — 



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Whoo 



followed with a cluck of the tongue in a high key, putting their fingers 

 to the mouth, and patting it after the fashion of children, or one of 

 our own Indians in giving the war-whoop. Tanoa would not at first 

 look at the ball flying along and throwing up the water. When the 

 second was fired, he uttered the same marks of surprise as the rest; 

 and after the third, he begged that no more should be fired, as he was 

 amply satisfied with the honour, and the noise almost distracted him. 

 As they went about the ship, when they saw any thing that pleased 

 them, they would say — 





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na - ka Vi na - ka. 



Ill expressing their satisfaction for many things, they repeat the words 

 vi naka several times very quickly. 



Suitable presents were now distributed to Tanoa and suite, consist- 

 ing of shawls, axes, acordions, plane-irons, whales' teeth, and a 

 variety of other articles, among which was a box of Windsor soap, 



