432 POLYNESIAN RESEARCHES. 
that if pigs should break in on the Sabbath, they 
ought by all means to be driven out, and the breaches 
they had made, so far repaired as to secure the 
enclosure till the following day. A chief of Hua- 
hine once asked me, whether it would be right, 
supposing he were walking in his garden 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; but on 
reflecting that I had other fruit ready plucked and 
prepared, I hesitated,—not because I believed it 
would be in itself sinful, but lest my attendants 
should notice it, and do so too, and it should 
become a general practice with the people to go to 
their gardens, and gather fruit to eat on the Sab¬ 
bath, which would be unfavourable to the proper 
observance of that day. 
Their inquiries referred not only to historical, 
biographical, and other facts connected with the 
sacred volume, but to those relating to other na¬ 
tions of the earth. The extent of territory, num¬ 
ber of inhabitants, colour, language, religion, of 
the different countries of whom they had heard 
from occasional visiters, were topics of conversa¬ 
tion at these meetings, together with the efforts of 
Christians to propagate the gospel among them. 
But the most interesting of these referred to Eng¬ 
land ; and although their recollections of Captain 
Cook were generally more indistinct, and very 
different from those entertained by the Sandwich 
Islanders, he was often alluded to; and we were 
asked, if any members of his family still survived, 
and whether they would ever come to the islands. 
The cities, towns, houses, carriages, dress, and 
