lathe mean time, Mr. Burney and I attempted again to 
go to the beach; but when we arrived, found ourfelves 
watched by people, who, to appearance, had been placed 
there for this purpofe. For when I tried to wade in upon 
the reef, one of them took hold of my clothes, and dragged 
me hack. I picked up fome fmall pieces of coral, which 
they required me to throw down again; and, on my refu¬ 
nd, they made no fcruple to take them forcibly from me. 
I had gathered fome fmall plants; but thefe alfo I could not 
be permitted to retain. And they took a fan from Mr. 
Burney, which he had received as a prefent on coming 
afhore. Omai faid, we had done wrong in taking up any 
thing; for it was not the cuftom here to permit freedoms of 
that kind to Grangers, till they had, in fome meafure, na¬ 
turalized them to the country, by entertaining them with 
feftivity for two or three days. 
Finding that the only method of procuring better treat¬ 
ment was to yield implicit obedience to their will, we went 
up again to the place we had left; and they now promifed, 
that we fhould have a canoe to carry us off to our boats, 
after we had eaten of a repaft which had been prepared 
for us. 
Accordingly, the fecond Chief, to whom we had been in¬ 
troduced in the morning, having feated himfelf upon a low 
broad Itool of blackifh hard wood, tolerably polilhed, and 
directing the multitude to make a pretty large ring, made 
us lit down by him. A conliderable number of cocoa-nuts 
were now brought; and, fhortly after, a long green bafket, 
with a fufhcient quantity of baked plantains to have ferved 
a dozen perfons. A piece of the young hog, that had been 
dreffed, was then fet before each of us, of which we were 
delired to eat. Our appetites, however, had failed, from 
the 
