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i 7 8 3 - 66 difafter, and our numbers ; after which the King eat fome 
AUGUST. 
a of the fugar-candy, feemed to relifh it, and diftributed 
u a little of it to feveral of his Chiefs, and then direfted all 
“ the things to be taken away and carried to his own houfe; 
u which being done, he ordered refrefhments to be brought, 
“ which confuted of a cocoa-nut filled with warm water, 
u and fweetened with molofies; after tailing it, he com- 
44 manded a little boy who was near him to climb a cocoa- 
44 tree and gather frefh nuts, he cleared one from the 
46 hulks, and tailing the milk thereof, bade the little boy 
44 prefent it to me, making figns to me to fend it back when 
44 I had drank; he afterwards broke the nut in two, eat a 
66 little, and returned it to me to eat of it. 
44 I now found myfelf furrounded by a valt concourfe of 
44 both fexes; much converfation took place between the 
44 King, his brother, and the Chiefs who were with him. As 
44 their eyes were repeatedly diredted to me, I concluded I was 
44 the fubjedt of it. Taking oft my hat by accident, all who 
44 were prefent feemed firuck with afionifhment, which I 
44 perceiving, unbuttoned my waiftcoat, and took my fhoes 
44 from my feet, in order that they might fee they were no 
44 part of my body ; being of opinion, that at firft fight of 
44 me, they entertained a notion that my clothes confututed 
u a part of my perfon ; for, when undeceived in this, they 
44 came nearer to me, ftroked me, and put their hands into 
u my boforn to feel my fkin. 
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