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Without example precept will have but little effect.” At the first valley CHAP, 
he threw off his hat, handkerchief, and jacket, and left them by the 
side of the path ; at the second, his trousers were cast aside into a Dec. 
hush ; and had he been alone, or provided with a maro, his shirt would 
certainly have followed : thus disencumbered, he boldly led the way, 
which was well known to him in earlier days ; but it was so long since 
he had trodden it, that we met with many difficulties. At length we 
reached the top of the ridge, which we were informed was the place 
where M‘Coy and Quintal had appeared in defiance of the blacks. 
Adams felt so fatigued that he was now glad to lie down. The breeze 
here blew so hard and cold, that a shirt alone was of little use, and had 
he not been inured to all the changes of atmosphere, the sudden transi- 
tion upon his aged frame must have been fatal. 
The desire of these people to travel induced them to undertake a 
Voyage in their whale-boat to an island which they learnt was not very 
far distant from their own ; but fortunately for them, as the compass 
on which they relied, one of the old Bounty’s, was so rusty as to be 
quite useless, their curiosity yielded to discretion, and they returned 
before they lost sight of their native soil. 
During the period we remained upon the island we were enter- 
tained at the board of the natives, sometimes dining with one person, 
and sometimes w ith another : their meals, as I have before stated, were 
not confined to hours, and always consisted of baked pig, yams, and 
taro, and more rarely of sweet potatoes. 
The productions of the island being very limited, and intercourse 
with the rest of the world much restricted, it may be readily supposed 
their meals cannot be greatly varied. However, they do their best with 
what they have, and cook it in different ways, the pig excepted, which 
is always baked. There are several goats upon the island, but they 
fiislike their flesh, as well as their milk. Yams constitute their prin- 
cipal food ; these are boiled, baked, or made into piUihey (cakes), by 
being mixed with cocoa nuts ; or bruised and formed into a soup, 
^ananas are mashed, and made into pancakes, or, like the yam, united 
"’ith the milk of the cocoa-nut, into pillihey, and eaten with molasses, 
extracted from the tee-root. The taro-root, by being rubbed, makes a 
