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While Otoo and I were abfent from the fhips, they had i, 77 . 
been but fparingly fupplied with fruit, and had few vihters. ^September. 
After our return, we again overflowed with provifions, and 
with company. 
On the 4th, a party of us dined afliore with Omai, who Thurfday 4, 
gave excellent fare, confifting of fifh, fowls, pork, and pud¬ 
dings. After dinner, I attended Otoo, who had been one of 
the party, back to his houfe, where I found all his fervants 
very bufy, getting a quantity of provifions ready for me. 
Amongft other articles, there was a large hog, which they 
killed in my prefence. The entrails were divided into eleven 
portions, in fuch a manner, that each of them contained 
a bit of every thing. Thefe portions were diftributed to the 
fervants, and fome dreffed theirs in the fame oven with the 
hog, while others carried off, undreffed, what had come to 
their fhare. There was alfo a large pudding, the whole 
procefs in making which, I faw. It was compofed of bread¬ 
fruit, ripe plantains, taro, and palm or pandanus nuts, each 
rafped, feraped, or beat up fine, and baked by itfelf. A 
quantity of juice, expreifed from cocoa-nut kernels, was 
put into a large tray or wooden veffel. The other articles, 
hot from the oven, were depofited in this veffel; and a few 
hot ftones were alfo put in, to make the contents fimmer. 
Three or four men made ufe of flicks to flir the feveral in¬ 
gredients, till they were incorporated one with another, and 
the juice of the cocoa-nut was turned to oil; fo that the 
whole mafs, at lafl, became of the confiflency of a hafly¬ 
pudding. Some of thefe puddings are excellent; and few 
that we make in England equal them, I feldom, or never, 
dined without one, when I could get it, which was not al¬ 
ways the cafe. Otoo’s hog being baked, and the pudding*, 
which I have deferibed, being made, they, together with 
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