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which above all others is abundantly plentiful on the coast, 
and the lovely P. accipitrinus Linn. When angered, the last 
mentioned is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful of parrots 
for then the brilliantly coloured feathers at the back of its head 
bristle up to form a regular circle round it: the Colonists call it the 
Hia-Hia, which word exactly resembles its note. The largest portion 
of the crowd of people demanded spirits in exchange, only a few wanting 
knives, beads, cloth or money. Unable to satisfy the wishes of all of 
them, I only bartered for a few fruits leaving the remainder to the occu- 
pants of the settlement who, immediately after my refusal, started bar- 
tering with them. 
327. Our own chief William who had reached here with his whole 
harem, pack and baggage, evidently wanted to keep us company during 
our stay, because he had already fixed himself up in one of the adjoining 
houses. After I had withstood the first assault, put down my gun and 
settled myself in my hammock, he forthwith appeared at the head of his 
four women and placing them in front of me, asked at the same time for 
a glass of spirits for each oue. I had not the slightest intention of com- 
plying with the request until I yielded to the earnest representations of 
Mr. King, who was apparently well acquainted with the character of 
these people and earnestly warned me not to forfeit the man's good graces 
by a refusal. 
328. Bad example corrupts good manners likewise here, while jeers 
and jibes can always upset the best of resolutions. William’s three older 
women, after the style of their lord and master, emptied their glasses at 
one pull : only the youngest, who could hardly have been ten years of 
age. yet notwithstanding was daily expecting her confinement, resisted it 
in the sense that after but sipping the glass she put it aside under the 
liveliest signs of aversion, until the contemptuous scoffs and mocking 
laughter of the three other fellow-wives forced her to take it up again 
and make one draught of it. 
329. In all the houses of the village the women were now kept very 
busily employed — the provisions that had been eaten during their stay 
in the forest had to be restored and the earthen vessels that had got 
broken replaced by others, while the activity and bustle attendant on the 
preparations for baking bread clearly indicated that the supply had fal- 
len very low. Here squatted one party of women who scraped the 
knobby roots of the Manihot , while another rubbed those already cleaned 
upon a European grater that had been beaten out flat and nailed onto a 
small piece of board, while others again were returning from the provision 
fields laden with the tubers they had just pulled. Some were manufac- 
turing dishes and pots off-hand out of the clay which the environs of the 
village supplied in large quantity. The hunting and fishing implements 
as well as a number of other household requisites, the hammocks and 
the crockery that the occupants had taken with them into the forest, 
were either already hung up again in their original places or else were 
still being used. 
330. After the women, providing for Life's requirements, had grated 
a sufficient quantity of Manihot, it was forcibly stuffed into an eight to 
nine foot long cylindrical resilient tube (Arupa) plaited out of a species 
of U alathra . The apparatus, which during the filling becomes consul- 
