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POLYNESIAN RESEARCHES. 
Many of their inquiries related to the proper observ¬ 
ance of the Sabbath, and under what circumstances it 
would be proper to launch a canoe or undertake a voy¬ 
age ? This resulted from the king’s sister being taken 
ill at Afareaitu, while we were residing there; and the 
natives wishing to send word to her relations, but hesi¬ 
tating because it was the Sabbath. A man once came 
and said, that while he was attending pubjlic worship, 
a pig broke into his garden ; that on his return, he saw 
him devouring the sweet potatoes, sugar-cane, taro, and 
other productions, in which pine-apples were probably 
included, but that he did not drive it out, because he 
was convinced it would immediately return, unless he 
repaired the broken fence, and he supposed was a 
kind of labour prohibited on the Sabbath. He there¬ 
fore allowed the pig to remain till he was satisfied, and 
did not mend the fence till the following morning. He, 
however, wished to know, and the people in general 
were evidently interested in the inquiry—whether, in the 
event of a similar occurrence at any future period, he 
should do wrong in driving out the animal, and repairing 
the fence. He was told that the most secure way would 
he to keep the fence in good repair, but that if pigs 
should break in on the Sabbath, they ought by all means 
to he driven out, and the breaches they had made, so 
far repaired as to secure the enclosure till the following 
day. A chief of Huahine once asked me whether it 
would be right, supposing he were walking in his gar¬ 
den on that day, and saw ripe plantains hanging from 
the trees that grew by the side of the path, to gather 
and eat them : I answered, that I thought it would not 
be wrong. I felt inclined to do so, said he, last Sabbath, 
when walking in my garden 3 but on reflecting that I had 
