142 ; 
Tiie old chief tarried at this Island 
but a short time, and Lav and myself 
were once more separated. The old 
chief, his family, and myself, returned 
to the Island which we had left two or 
three days before, called, in the lan¬ 
guage of the natives, Tabarawort; and 
he and his family commenced gathering 
bread fruit. As the old man wi*h whom 
I lived had charge of several small Isl¬ 
ands, we found it difficult to gather the 
fruit as fast as it ripened, so that a con¬ 
siderable part fell to the ground and 
perished. In the mean time, while we 
were employed in gathering in the fruits 
of the earth, news came to the Island, 
to inform the chief with whom I lived, 
that it was the intention of the highest 
chiefs to destroy us both, (that is my¬ 
self and Lay,) because a severe sickness 
prevailed among them, and they being" 
superstitious, supposed we were the oc¬ 
casion of it. I informed them that we 
could not have been the cause of the 
sickness, as no such sickness prevailed 
in our country, and that I never before 
