THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
321 
been wounded, but not dangeroufly, with a mufquet ball. i 777 , 
I never could find out how this mufquet happened to be t ^ une ‘ , 
charged with ball; and there were people enough ready to 
fwear, that its contents were only fmall fliot. 
Mr. Anderfon’s account of the excurfion, juft mentioned, 
will fill up an interval of two days, during which nothing 
of note happened, at the fhips : 66 Mr. King and I went, on 
the 30th, along with Futtafaihe as vifiters to his houfe, Monday 3a. 
which is at Mooa, very near that of his brother Poulaho. 
A firort time after we arrived, a pretty large hog was killed; 
which is done by repeated ftrokes on the head. The hair 
was then fcraped off, very dextroufly, with the fharp edge 
of pieces of fplit bamboo; taking the entrails out at a large 
oval hole cut in the belly, by the fame fimple inftrument. 
Before this, they had prepared an oven; which is a large 
hole dug in the earth, filled at the bottom with ftones, about 
the fize of the fift, over which a fire is made till they are 
red hot. They took fome of thefe ftones, wrapt up in leaves 
of the bread-fruit tree, and filled the hog’s belly, ftuffing 
in a quantity of leaves, to prevent their falling out, and 
putting a plug of the fame kind in the anus• Tlic c^rc^lc 
was then placed on fome fticks laid acrofs the ftones, in a 
Handing pofture, and covered with a great quantity of plan¬ 
tain leaves. After which, they dug up the earth, all round; 
and having thus effectually clofed the oven, the operation 
of baking required no farther interference. 
In the mean time we walked about the country, but met 
with nothing remarkable, except a fiatooka of one houfe, 
Handing on an artificial mount, at leaft thirty feet high. A 
little on one fide of it, was a pretty large open area; and, 
not far off, was a good deal of uncultivated ground; which, 
on inquiring why it lay wafte, our guides feemed to fay, 
^ PL * T t belonged 
