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A VOYAGE TO 
1777. rank, and was now under the fame reftriftion; but not for 
^ u " e ‘ , fo long a time. At another place, hard by, we faw another 
woman fed; and we learnt, that file had aflifted in wafhing 
the corpfe of the above-mentioned Chief. 
Saturday 21. Early the next morning, the king came on board, to in¬ 
vite me to an entertainment, which he propofed to give the 
fame day. He had already been under the barber’s hands; 
his head being all befmeared with red pigment, in order 
to redden his hair, which was naturally of a dark brown 
colour. After breakfaft, I attended him to the fhore ; and 
we found his people very bufy, in two places, in the front 
of our area, fixing, in an upright and fquare pofition, 
thus [0°]? four very long pofts, near two feet from each 
other. The fpace between the pofts was afterward filled 
up with yams; and as they went on filling it, they fatten¬ 
ed pieces of fticks acrofs, from poft to poft, at the diftance of 
about every four feet; to prevent the pofts from feparating, 
by the weight of the inclofed yams, and alfo to get up by. 
When the yams had reached the top of the firft pofts, they 
fattened others to them, and fo continued till each pile was 
the height of thirty feet, or upward. On the top of one, 
they placed two baked hogs; and on the top of the other, 
a living one ; and another they tied by the legs, half-way 
up. It was matter of curiofity to obferve, with what facility 
and difpatch thefe two piles were rafted. Had our feamen 
been ordered to execute fuch a work, they would have 
fworn that it could not be performed without carpenters ; 
and the carpenters would have called to their aid a dozen 
different forts of tools, and have expended, at leaft, a hun¬ 
dred weight of nails ; and, after all, it would have employ¬ 
ed them as many days, as it did thefe people hours. But 
feamen, like moft other amphibious animals, are always 
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