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they made their fweet-drink. Their fweetmeats were of 
three forts ;—the firft, and the one that was moft plentiful, 
was made of the kernels of old cocoa-nuts, fcraped into a 
coarfe kind of flour, then mixed with the fyrup, and 
limmered over a flow fire till it became of a proper con¬ 
fluence, and whilft warm was put up in leaves; it acquired 
fuch hardnefs by keeping, that a knife would hardly cut 
it; the natives called it Woolell , and was the fame our fai- 
lors denominated Choak Dog .—The fecond fort was made 
of the fruit already mentioned as refembling the almond, 
not bruifed, but whole, boiled in the fame manner, and 
put in leaves.—The third was a wet fweetmeat, clear and 
tranfparent; this was uncommon, but was made at Cap¬ 
tain Wilson’s coming away, and prefented to him in the 
fame large tureen of wood which was brought out on his 
firft vifit to the King. Abba Thulle, when he prefented it, 
faid, that he gave him the tureen *, but that his wives had 
prepared the fweetmeat on purpofe for him. On the Cap¬ 
tain’s noticing that it appeared different from any of the 
forts he had feen before, and wifhing to know of what it 
was made, Raa Kook difpatched a man, who in an 
hour returned with two frefh-gathered plants; from the 
root of them this fweetmeat was made, which in fhape, 
fize, and colour, refembled a common turnip; its leaves 
* Our people could never learn the name by which the natives called this veflel, of 
which one only was feen, and therefore have termed it a tureen, as refembling it in 
form. 
were 
