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A VOYAGE TO 
Tune’ tC> ** )e u P on one °P the banks, which they inftantly inclofed 
in a long net like a feme, or fet-net. This the fifhers, one 
getting into the water out of each boat, furrounded with 
the triangular nets in their hands ; with which they fcooped 
the filh out of the feine, or caught them as they attempted 
to leap over it. They fhewed us the whole procefs of this 
operation (which teemed to be a fure one), by throwing 
in fome of the fitli they had already caught; for, at this 
time, there happened to be none upon the bank that was 
inclofed. 
Leaving the prince and his fifhing party, we proceeded 
to the bottom of the bay, and landed where we had done 
before, on our fruitlefs errand to fee'Mareewagee. As foon 
as we got on fhore, the king detired Omai to tell me, that 
I need be under no apprehenfions about the boat, or any 
thing in her, for not a (ingle article would be touched by 
any one; and we afterward found this to be the cafe. We 
were immediately conduced to one of Poulaho’s houfes not 
far off, and near the public one, or malaee , in which we had 
been, when we firft vilited Mooa. This, though pretty 
large, feemed to be his private habitation, and was fituated 
within a plantation. The king took his feat at one end of 
the houfe, and the people, who came to vilit him, fat down, 
as they arrived, in a femicircle at the other end. The firft 
thing done, was to prepare a bowl of kava, and to order 
fome yams to be baked for us. While thefe were getting 
ready, fome of us, accompanied by a few of the king’s at¬ 
tendants, and Omai as our interpreter, walked out to take a 
view of a fiatooka , or burying-place, which we had obferved 
to be almoft clofe by the houfe, and was much more exten- 
five, and feemingly of more confequence, than any we had 
feen at the other iflands. We were told, that it belonged to 
the 
