us with prefents, fuitable to the refpedt and kindnefs with 
Which he had received us. For, on our telling him w r e 
fhould leave the illand on the next day but one, we ob- 
ferved, that a fort of proclamation was immediately made, 
through the villages, to require the people to bring in their, 
hogs, and vegetables, for the king to prefent to the Orono , 
on his departure. 
We were this day much diverted, at the beach, by the 
buffooneries of one of the natives. He held in his hand 
an inftrument, of the fort defcribed in the laft volume * ; 
fome bits of fea-weed were tied round his neck; and 
round each leg, a piece of ftrong netting, about nine 
inches deep, on which a great number of dogs’ teeth were 
loofely fattened, in rows. His ftyle of dancing was en¬ 
tirely burlefque, and accompanied with ftrange grimaces, 
and pantomimical diftortioirs of the face; which though at 
times inexprefiibly ridiculous, yet, on the whole, was with¬ 
out much meaning, or expreflion. Mr. Webber thought it 
worth his while to make a drawing of this perfon, as exhi¬ 
biting a tolerable fpecimen of the natives; the manner in 
w'hich the metro is tied; the figure of the inftrument before 
mentioned, and of the ornaments round the legs, which, at 
other times, we alfo faw ufed by their dancers. 
In the evening, we were again entertained with wreftling 
and boxing matches and we difplayed, in return, the few 
fireworks we had left. Nothing could be better calculated' 
to excite the admiration of thefe iflanders, and to imprefs 
them with an idea of our great fuperiority, than an exhibi¬ 
tion of this kind. Captain Cook has already defcribed the 
extraordinary effects of that which Was made at Hapaee; 
and though the prefent was, in every refpeft,, infinitely 
* See Vol. ii. p. 236. 
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