A VOYAGE TO 
£ 
03 
6 
CHAP. IX. 
A grand Solemnity*) called Natch e, in Honour of the King's 
Son, performed.—"The ProceJJions and other Ceremonies, 
during the firjl Day, defcribed.—The Manner of pajjing the 
Night at the King's Houfe.—Continuation of the Solemnity, 
the next Day.—Conjectures about the Nature of it. — Depar¬ 
ture from Tongataboo, and Arrival at Eooa.—Account of 
that If and, and Tranfactions there. 
* 777 ' 
Sunday 6. 
Monday 7. 
Tuefday 8. 
W E were now ready to fail; but the wind toeing Eafi> 
erly, we had not fufficient! day-light to turn through 
the narrows, either with the morning, or with the evening 
flood; the one falling out too early, and the other too late. 
So that, without a leading wind, we were under a neceffity 
of waiting two or three days. 
I took the opportunity of this delay, to be prefent at a 
public folemnity, to which the king had invited us, when 
we went laft to vifit him, and which, he had informed us, 
was to be performed on the 8th. With a view to this, 
he and all the people of note, quitted our neighbourhood 
on the 7th, and repaired to Mooa, where the folemnity 
was to be exhibited. A party of us followed them, the 
next morning. We underftood, from what Poulaho had 
faid to us, that his fon and heir was now to be initiated 
into certain privileges; amongft which was, that of eating 
with 
