A VOYAGE TO 
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May. 
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Sunday 18. 
board for my dinner. I invited Feenou, and his friends, to 
partake of it; and we embarked for the fhip ; but none but 
himfelf fat down with us at the table. After dinner I con¬ 
duced them on fhore ; and, before I returned on board, the 
Chief gave me a fine large turtle, and a quantity of yams. 
Our fupply of provifions was copious ; for, in the courfe of 
the day, we got, by barter, along-fide the fiiip, about twenty 
fmall hogs, befide fruit and roots. I was told, that on my 
firft landing in the morning, a man came off to the fhips, 
and ordered every one of the natives to go on Ihore. Pro¬ 
bably, this was done with a view to have the whole body of 
inhabitants prefent at the ceremony of my reception; for 
when that was over, multitudes of them returned again to 
the fhips. 
Next morning early, Feenou, and Omai, who fcarcely 
ever quitted the Chief, and now flept on fhore, came on 
board. The objeC of the vifit, was to require my prefence 
upon the ifland. After fome time, I accompanied them ; 
and, upon landing, was conducted to the fame place where 
I had been leated the day before ; and where I faw a large 
concourfe of people already aflembled. I guefied that 
fomething more than ordinary was in agitation; but could 
not tell what, nor could Omai inform me. 
I had not been long feated, before near a hundred of the 
natives appeared in fight, and advanced, laden with yams, 
bread-fruit, plantains, cocoa-nuts, and fugar-canes. They 
depofited their burdens, in two heaps, or piles, upon our 
left, being the fide they came from. Soon after, arrived a 
number of others from the right, bearing the fame kind 
of articles; which were collected into two piles upon that 
fide. To thefe were tied two pigs, and fix fowls ; and to 
thofe, upon the left, fix pigs, and two turtles. Earoupa • 
feated 
