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A VOYAGE 
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1777’ fifty years old. He is bald-headed; which is rather an 
uncommon appearance in thefe iflands, at that age. He 
wore a kind of turban, and feemed afhamed to fhew his 
head. But, whether they themfelves confidered this defi¬ 
ciency of hair as a mark of difgrace, or whether they en¬ 
tertained a notion of our confidering it as fuch, I cannot fay. 
We judged that the latter fuppofition was the truth, from 
this circumftance, that they had feen us fhave the head of 
one of their people, whom we had caught ftealing. They, 
therefore, concluded, that this was the punifhment ufually 
inflidted by us upon all thieves ; and one or two of our 
gentlemen, whofe heads were not over-burthened with 
hair, we could obferve, lay under violent fufpicions of 
being tetos. 
In the evening, Omai and I mounted on horfeback, and 
took a ride along the fhore to the Eaftward. Our train was 
not very numerous, as Omai had forbid the natives to fol¬ 
low us; and many complied; the fear of giving offence, 
getting the better of their cnriofity. Towha had flationed 
his fleet in this harbour; and though the war lafted but a 
few days, the marks of its devaluation were every where 
to be feen. The trees were flripped of their fruit; and all 
the houfes in the neighbourhood had been pulled down 
or burnt. 
Having employed two or three days in getting up all our 
fpirit calks, to tar their heads, which we found neceffajy, to 
fave them from the efforts of a fmall infedt to deftroy them, 
Monday 6 . we hauled the fhip off into the hr earn, on the 6th in the 
morning, intending to put to fea the next day; but an acci¬ 
dent happened that prevented it, and gave me a good deal 
of trouble. We had fent our goats afhore, in the day time, 
to graze, with two men to look after them; notwithftanding 
which 
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