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1777. the reef where it hands. It is elevated about ten or twelve 
iu "!‘_, feet above the furface of the fea that furrounds it. The 
hale it refts upon, is not above one-third of the circumfe¬ 
rence of its projeding fummit, which I judged to be about 
one hundred feet, and is covered with etoa and pandanus 
trees. 
When we got on board the lliip, I found that every thing 
had been quiet during my abfence, not a theft having been 
committed; of which Feenou, and Futtafaihe, the king’s 
brother, w r ho had undertaken the management of his 
countrymen, boafted not a little. This brews what power 
the Chiefs have, when they have the will to execute it; 
which we were feldom to exped, bnce, whatever was 
lfolen from us, generally, if not always, was conveyed to 
them. 
The good condud of the natives was of brort duration; 
■Saturday 28. for, the next day, bx or eight of them affaulted fome of our 
people, who were fawing planks. They were bred upon 
by the fentry; and one was fuppofed to be wounded, and 
three others taken. Thefe I kept conbned till night; and 
did not difmifs them without punibiment. After this, they 
behaved with a little more circumfpedion, and gave us 
much lefs trouble. This change of behaviour, was cer¬ 
tainly occaboned by the man being wounded ; for, before, 
they had only been told of the effed of hre-arms, but now 
they had felt it. The repeated infolence of the natives, had 
induced me to order the mufquets of the fentries to be 
loaded with fmab brot, and to authorize them to fire on par¬ 
ticular occabons. I took it for granted, therefore, that this 
man had only been wounded with fmall biot. But Mr. 
King and Mr. Anderfon, in an excurbon into the country, 
met with him, and found indubitable marks of his having 
been 
