As these people had never seen me 
before, I was much annoyed Hy them. 
During their stay, I was constantly sur¬ 
rounded ; my skin telt of, and often be¬ 
came the sport of the more 'witty , be¬ 
cause my skin was not of so dark a hue 
as their own, and more especially, as 
my ears remained in the same form, as 
when nature gave them to me. These 
visitors, to my great satisfaction, did 
not remain long with us. 
Their mode of anchoring their ca¬ 
noes is singular. One of them takes 
the end of a line, and diving to the bot¬ 
tom, secures it to a rock ; and in the 
same way do they dive down to cast it 
off. I have seen them do this in five 
fathoms of water. 
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It was not until the 23d of Decem¬ 
ber, j. 1825, that the prospects of being 
relieved from toy disagreeable situation 
