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A VOYAGE TO 
>77 9 * Kaneena took him up in his arms, and threw him into the 
J B.n nary* ^ 
Both thefe chiefs were men of drong and well-propor¬ 
tioned bodies, and of countenances remarkably pleating. 
Kaneena efpecially, whofe portrait Mr. Webber has drawn, 
was one of the fined: men I ever faw. He was about 
fix feet high, had regular and expreflive features, with 
lively, dark eyes; his carriage was eafy, firm, and grace¬ 
ful. 
It has been already mentioned, that during our long 
cruife off this ifland, the inhabitants had always behaved, 
with great fairnefs and honefty in their dealings, and had 
not fhewn the flighted propenfity to theft; which appeared 
to us the more extraordinary, hecaufe thofe with whom- we 
had hitherto held any intercourfe, were of the lowed rank,, 
either fervants or fifhermen. We now found the cafe ex¬ 
ceedingly altered. The immenfe crowd of idanders, which 
blocked up every part of the drips, not only afforded fre¬ 
quent opportunity of pilfering without rifk of difcovery, 
but our inferiority in number held forth a profpecd of 
efcaping with impunity in cafe of detection. Another cir- 
cumdance, to which we attributed this alteration in their 
behaviour, was the prefence and encouragement of their 
chiefs ; for, generally tracing the booty into the poffedion 
of fome men of confequence, we had the dronged reafon 
to fufpedt that thefe depredations were committed at their 
indication. 
Soon after the Refolution had got into her dation, our 
two friends, Pareea and Kaneena, brought on board a third 
chief, named Koah, who, we were told, was a pried, and 
had been, in his youth, a didinguifhed warrior. He was 
a little old man, of an emaciated figure; his eyes exceed- 
ingly 
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