>777- I found that this was owing to the prefence of a female,
>- — > whom, at his defire, I had admitted to the dining party; and
who, as we afterward underftood, had fuperior rank to him,
felf. As foon as this great perfonage had dined, ihe ftepped
up to the king, who put his hands to her feet; and then ihe
retired. He immediately dipped his fingers into a glafs of
wine, and then received the obeifance of all her followers.
This was the fingle inflance we ever obferved of his paying
this mark of reverence to any perfon. At the king's defire,
I ordered fome fireworks to be played off in the evening;
but, unfortunately, being damaged, this exhibition did not
anfwer expectation.
C H A P .
C H A P , VIII.
Some o f the Officers plundered ly the N a tiv es.— A fifhin g
P arty.— A V ifit to Poulaho.— A Fiatooka defcribèd.—
Obfervations on the Country Entertainment at Poulaho's
Houfe.— H is Mourning Ceremony.— O f the Kava P la n t,
and the Manner o f preparing the Liquor.— Account o f
Onevy, a little I/land.— One o f the N atives wounded by
a Sentinel.— Meffirs. K ing and Anderfon v ijit the K in g s
B rother.— 7heir Entertainment.— Another Mourning
Ceremony.— Manner o f paffing the N ig h t.— Remarks on
the Country they paffied through.— Preparations made
fo r fa ilin g .— A n Eclipfe o f the Sun, imperfeElly obferv
ed .— M r. Anderfon s Account o f the I f and, and its
ProduElions.
S no more entertainments were to -be expefted, on 1 7 7 7 -
either fide, and the curiofity of the populace was, 1 .
by this time, pretty well fatisfied ; on the day after Poula- Sunday 22.
ho’s haiva, moft of them left us. We itili, however, had
thieves about us ; and, encouraged by the negligence of
our own people, we had continual inftances of their depredations.
Some of the officers, belonging to both ihips, who had
made an excurfion into the interior parts of thè ifland,
without my leave, and, indeed, without my knowledge,
returned this evening, after an abfence of two days. They
9 had