punifhment, we are told, they inflict on fuch as are guilty
of this crime. Be this as it may, ftrangers are certainly
excluded from the protection of this law ; them they rob,
with impunity, on every occafion that offers. After the play
was over, we returned on board to dinner; and in the cool
of the evening, took a walk on fhore, where we learnt from
one of the natives, that nine fmall iflands, two of which
were uninhabited, lay to the weftward, at no great diftance
from hence.
On the i ith, early in the morning, I had a vifit from Oreo
and his fon, a youth about twelve years of age. The latter
brought me a hog, and fome fruit; for which I made him a
prefènt of an axe, and dreffed him in a Ihirt, and other
things, which made him not a little proud of himfelf. Having
flayed fome hours, they went on fhore; as I alfo did foon
after, but to another part. The chief hearing I was on
fhore, came to the place where he found the boat, into
which he put a hog, and a quantity of fruit, without faying
a word to any body, and, with fome of his friends, came on
board, and dined with us. After dinner I had a vifit from
Oo-oorou, the principal chief of the ifle. He was introduced
to us by Oreo, and brought with him, as a prefent, a
large hog, for which I made him a handfome return. Oreo
employed himfelf in buying hogs for me (for we now began
to take of them), and he made fuch bargains as I had reafon
to be fatisfied with. At length they all took leave, after
making me promife to vifit them next morning; which I
accordingly did, in company with feveral of the officers and
gentlemen. Oreo ordered an heava to be adted for our
entertainment, in which two very pretty young women were
the adtrefTes. This heava was fomewhat different from the
one I faw before, and not fo entertaining. Oreo, after it was 1773.
over, accompanied us on board, together with two of his ■Septe_mbe2r
friends.
The following day was ipent much in the fame manner; Monday i3.
and early in the morning of the 14th, I fent Mr. Pickerfgill, Tutfday
with the Refolution s launch, and Adventure’s cutter, to
Otaha, to procure an additional fupply of bananoes, and
plantains, for a fea-ftore; for we could get little more of
thefe articles at Ulietea than were fufficient for prefent con—
fumption. Oreo, and fome of his friends, paid me a pretty
early vifit this morning. I acquainted the chief that I would
dine with him, and defired he would order two pigs to be
dreffed after their manner, which he accordingly did; and,
about one o’clock, I, and the officers and gentlemen of both
lhips, went to partake of them. When we came to the
chief’s houfe, we found the cloth laid; that is, green leaves
were ftrewed thick on the floor. Round them we feated our-
felves; prefently one of the pigs came over my head fouce
upon the leaves, and immediately after the other; both fo
hot as hardly to be touched. The table was garnifhed round
with hot bread-fruit, and plantains, and a quantity of cocoa-
nuts brought for drink. Each man being ready, with his
knife in his hand, we turned to without ceremony; and it
muft be. owned, in favour of their cookery, that victuals
were never cleaner, nor better dreffed. For, though the pigs
were ferved up whole, and the one weighed between fifty
and fixty pounds, and the other about half as much; yet
all the parts were equally well done, and eat much fweeter
than if dreffed in any of our methods. The chief and his
fon, and fome other of his male friends, eat with us, and
pieces were handed to others who rfat behind: for we had
^ avail