A VOYAGE TO 
our amufement, called upon us to make fome exhibition in 
our way, I ordered the party of marines to go through their 
exercife on the fpot where his dances had been performed; 
and, in the evening, played off fome fireworks at the fame 
place. Poulaho, with all the principal Chiefs, and a great 
number of people, of all denominations, were prefent. The 
platoon firing, which was executed tolerably well, feemed 
to give them pleafure; but they were loft in aftonifliment 
when they beheld our water rockets. They paid but little 
attention to the fife and drum, or French horns that played 
during the intervals. The king fat behind every body, 
becaufe no one is allowed to fit behind him; and, that 
his view might not he obftrubted, nobody fat immedi¬ 
ately before him ; but a lane, as it were, was made by the 
people from him, quite down to the fpace allotted for the 
fireworks. 
In expedition of this evening fhew, the circle of natives 
about our tent being pretty large, they engaged, the greateft 
part of the afternoon, in boxing and wreftling; the firft of 
which exercifes they call fangatooa , and the fecond foohoo. 
When any of them choofes to wreftle, he gets up from one 
fide of the ring, and crofies the ground in a fort of mea- 
fured pace, clapping fmartly on the elbow joint of one arm, 
which is bent, and produces a hollow found; that is rec¬ 
koned the challenge. If no perfon comes out from the op- 
pofite fide to engage him, he returns, in the fame manner, 
and fits down ; but fometimes ftands clapping in the midft 
of the ground, to provoke fome one to come out. If an 
opponent appear, they come together with marks of the 
greateft good-nature, generally fmiling, and taking time to 
adjuft the piece of cloth which is fattened round the waift. 
They then lay hold of each other by this girdle, with a 
hand 
