A VOYAGE TO 
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September. 
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Friday 5. 
Sunday 7, 
Monday 8, 
two living hogs, and a quantity of bread-fruit, and cocoa- 
nuts, were put into a canoe, and fent on board my fhip, 
followed by myfelf, and all the royal family. 
The following evening, a young ram, of the Gape breed, 
that had been lambed, and, with great care, brought up 
on board the fhip, was killed by a dog. Incidents are of 
more or lefs confequence, as connected with lituation. In 
our prefent lituation, defirous as I was to propagate this ufe- 
ful race, amongft thefe illands, the lofs of the ram was a 
ferious misfortune; as it was the only one I had of that 
breed; and I had only one of the Englifh breed left. 
In the evening of the 7th, we played off fome fireworks 
before a great concourfe of people. Some were highly en¬ 
tertained with the exhibition; but by far the greater num¬ 
ber of fpetftators were terribly frightened; infomuch, that 
it was with difficulty we could prevail upon them to keep 
together, to fee the end of the fhew. A table-rocket was 
the laft. It flew off the table, and difperfed the whole 
crowd in a moment; even the moft refolute among them 
fled with precipitation. 
The next day, a party of us dined with our former fhip- 
mate, Oedidee, on fifh and pork. The hog weighed about 
thirty pounds; and it may be worth mentioning, that it was 
alive, dreffed, and brought upon the table, within the hour. 
We had but juft dined, when Otoo came, and afked me, if 
my belly was full ? On my anfwering in the affirmative, he 
faid, 66 Then, come along with me.” I, accordingly, went 
with him to his father’s, where I found fome people em¬ 
ployed in drefling two girls with a prodigious quantity of 
fine cloth, after a very Angular fafhion. The one end of each 
piece of cloth, of which there were a good many, was held 
up over the heads of the girls, while the remainder was 
wrapped 
