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us, more easily in the Sandwich tongue. As soon as he 
had ended, refreshments were placed for us on a table ; these 
consisted of grapes, melons, fresh butter, biscuits, bananas, 
cocoa-nuts, wines, and liqueurs. The three first articles the 
Islanders owe to the industry of Marini, an old Spaniard, 
w ho was the first to bring in and tame some of the cattle 
that V;ancouver first introduced into Hawaii, and began to 
show the natives the various uses of milk. He has also 
cultivated the vine so successfully as to have made tolerable 
wine, and the melons, though first brought hither by the 
English, have been fostered by this man, so as now to seem 
native here. 
Having tasted of the chief’s good things, we returned 
to the ship, not ungratified with the morning's spectacle, 
though disappointed in the appearance of the women, w ho, 
with very few exceptions, are very tall, and almost all dis¬ 
gustingly fat. Some of the principal female chiefs have 
little cars, on which, lying at length on their faces upon 
fine mats, they are drawn from place to place by their 
kanakas. 
The little king possesses two or three horses, which he 
promised to lend to us, and we accordingly went ashore in the 
afternoon to take a ride: but horses are novelties here, and 
neither they nor their accoutrements are well understood; so 
