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let out in rows. The walls that feparate them are made of 
the loofe burnt hones, which are got in clearing the ground; 
and, being entirely concealed by fugar-canes, planted clofe 
on each fide, make the moft beautiful fences that can be 
conceived. The party hopped for the night at the fecond 
hut they found amongh the plantations, where they judged 
themfelves to be about lix or feven miles from the Ihips. 
They defcribed the profpedt from this fpot as very delight¬ 
ful ; they faw the fhips in the bay before them ; to the left, 
a continued range of villages, interfperfed with groves of 
cocoa-nut-trees, fpreading along the fea-fhore; a thick wood 
hretching out of light behind them; and to the right, an 
extent of ground laid out in regular and well-cultivated 
plantations, as far as the eye could reach. 
Near this fpot, at a diftance from any other dwelling, the 
natives pointed out to them the relidence of an hermit, 
who, they faid, had formerly been a great chief and war¬ 
rior, but had long ago quitted the fhores of the illand, and 
now never ftirred from his cottage. They proftrated them¬ 
felves as they approached him, and afterward prefented to 
him a part of fuch provilions as they had brought with 
them. His behaviour was eafy and cheerful; he fcarce 
fhewed any marks of aftonifhment at the light of oUr peo¬ 
ple, and though prelfed to accept fome of our curiolities* 
1779 - 
March. 
light mould 5 the latter is left bare to the root, and the mould round it is made in the 
form of a bafon, in order to hold the rain-water, as this root requires a certain degree of 
moifture. It has been before obferved, that the tarrow, at the Friendly and Society 
Hands, was always planted in low and moift fituations, and, generally, where there was 
the conveniency of a rivulet to flood it. It was imagined that this mode of culture was 
abfolutely neceflary ; but we now found, that, with the precaution above mentioned, it 
fucceeds equally well in a drier fituation: indeed, we all remarked, that the tarrow of the 
Sandwich Hands is the beft we had ever tailed. The plantains are not admitted in thefe 
plantations, but grow amongft the bread-fruit trees. 
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