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kind. It fhould be obferved, at the fame time, that though 
thefe iflanders have this liquor always frefh prepared, and I 
have feen them drink it feven times before noon, it is, ne- 
verthelefs, fo difagreeable, or, at leaf:, feems fo, that the 
greateft part of them cannot fwallow it without making wry 
faces, and fhuddering afterward.” 
As loon as this mourning ceremony was over, we left 
Mooa, and fet out to return to the flips. While we rowed 
down the lagoon or inlet, we met with two canoes coming 
in from fifhing. Poulaho ordered them to be called along- 
lide our boat, and took from them every filh and fhell they 
had got. He, afterward, Hopped two other canoes, and 
fearched them, but they had nothing. Why this was done, 
I cannot fay ; for we had plenty of provilions in the boat. 
Some of this filh he gave to me; and his fervants fold 
the reft on board the fhip. As we proceeded down the in¬ 
let, we overtook a large failing canoe. Every perfon on 
board her, that was upon his legs when we came up, fat 
down till we had paffed; even the man who fleered, 
though he could not manage the helm, except in a Handing 
pofture. 
Poulaho, and others, having informed me, that there 
was fome excellent water on Onevy, a little illand, which 
lies about a league off the mouth of the inlet, and on 
the North fide of the Eaftern channel, we landed there, 
in order to tafte it. But I found it to be as brackifh as 
moft that we had met with. This illand is quite in a 
natural ftate, being only frequented as a fifhing place, 
and has nearly the fame productions as Palmerfton’s 
Illand, with fome etoa trees. After leaving Onevy, where 
we dined, in our v r ay to the fhip, we took a view of a cu¬ 
rious coral rock, which feems to have been thrown upon 
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