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vateer, Le Gloriant, Captain Dubardieu, put into Sydney, when Captain 

 Sartori engaged a passage for himself and his men to the Feejees. 

 On their way they touched at Norfolk Island, where the ship struck, 

 and damaged her keel so much that they were obliged to put into 

 the Bay of Islands for repairs. Paddy asserts that a difficulty had 

 occurred here between Captain Sartori and his men about their 

 provisions, which was amicably settled. The Gloriant finally sailed 

 from New Zealand for Tongataboo, where they arrived just after the 

 capture of a vessel, which he supposed to have been the Port au 

 Prince, as they had obtained many articles from the natives, which 

 had evidently belonged to some large vessel. Here they remained 

 some months, and then sailed for Sandalwood Bay, where the men, 

 on account of their former quarrel with Captain Sartori, refused to go 

 on board the General Wellesley : some of them shipped on board the 

 Gloriant, and others, with Paddy, determined to remain on shore with 

 the natives. He added, that Captain Sartori was kind to him, and 

 at parting had given him a pistol, cutlass, and an old good-for-nothing 

 musket; these, with his sea-chest and a few clothes, were all that 

 he possessed. He had now lived forty years among these savages. 

 After hearing his whole story, I told him I did not believe a word 

 of it ; to which he answered, that the main part of it was true, but he 

 might have made some mistakes, as he had been so much in the 

 habit of lying to the Feejeeans, that he hardly now knew when he told 

 the truth, adding that he had no desire to tell any thing but the truth. 

 Paddy turned out to be a very amusing fellow, and possessed an 

 accurate knowledge of the Feejee character. Some of the whites told 

 me that he was more than half Feejee ; indeed he seemed to delight in 

 showing how nearly he was allied to them in feeling and propensities; 

 and, like them, seemed to fix his attention upon trifles. He gave me 

 a droll account of his daily employments, which it would be inappro- 

 priate to give here, and finished by telling me the only wish he had 

 then, was to get for his little boy, on whom he doated, a small hatchet, 

 and the only article he had to offer for it was a few old hens. On my 

 asking him if he did not cultivate the ground, he said at once no, he 

 found it much easier to get his living by telling the Feejeeans stories, 

 which he could always make good enough for them ; these, and the 

 care of his two little boys, and his hens, and his pigs, when he had 

 any, gave him ample employment and plenty of food. He had lived 

 much at Rewa, and until lately had been a resident at Levuka, but 

 had, in consequence of his intrigues, been expelled by the white resi- 



