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run for the Bay of Iflands, (which we understood was Too-gee ? s 

 refidence,) and from which we were twenty-four leagues diftant. 

 At nine o'clock a canoe with four men came alongfide, and jumped 

 on board without any fear. After fupper Too-gee and Hoo-doo 

 afked the Grangers for the news of their country fmce they had been 

 taken away. This was complied with by the four ftrangers, who 

 began a fong, in which each of them took a part, lbmetimes ufing 

 fierce and favage geftures, and at other times finking their voices, 

 according to the different paflages or events that they were relating. 

 Hoo-doo, who was paying great attention to the fubjecl: of their fong, 

 fuddenly burft into tears, occafioned by an account which they were 

 giving of the T'fouduckey tribe having made an irruption on Teer-a- 

 witte, (Hoo-doo's diftricl,) and killed the chief's fon, with thirty warri- 

 ors. He was too much affe&ed to hear more; but retired into a cor- 

 ner of the cabin, where he gave vent to his grief, which was only 

 interrupted by his threats of revenge. 



u Owing to calm weather, little progrefs was made during the 

 night. At day-light on the 13th, a number of canoes were feen 

 coming from the hippah ; in the largeft of which was thirty-fix men 

 and a chief, who was {landing up, making fignals with great earneft- 

 nefs. On his coming alongfide, Too-gee recognized the chief to be 

 Ko-to-ko ke, who is the etiketica,< or principal chief of the hippah. 

 The old chief, who appeared to be about feventy years of age, had 

 not a vifible feature, the whole of his face being tattowed with fpiral 

 lines. At his coming on board he embraced Too-gee with great 

 affe&ion. Too-gee then introduced me to him ; and after the cere- 

 mony of " ahong-i," (i. e. joining nofes) he took off his ah-a-how, 

 or mantle, and put it on my moulders. I in return gave him a 

 mantle made of green baize, and decorated with broad arrows. 

 Soon after, feven other canoes, with upwards of twenty men and wo- 

 men in each, came alongfide. At Too-gee's defire the poop was 

 " eta-boo," i. e. all accefs to it by any other than the old chief, for- 

 •bidden. To wait the event of the calm, or the wind coming from 



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