tiling like cheese given us after the cakes, but we cannot
form a probable conjecture of what it was made. Most of
the dishes were so good that we soon made a hearty dinner,
but the attendants still brought in more, till the Chief
seeing that we did not eat, recommended the sackee to us.
The old gentleman's eyes a t length began to glisten, and
observing that we felt it hot, he requested us to uncover,
shewing the example himself. He seized the doctor’s
cocked hat and put it on, while the doctor did the same
with his hatchee-matchee. The oddity of the Chiefs appearance
produced by this change overcame the gravity of
the attendants, and the mirth became general; nor was the
joke relished by any body more than the Chiefs two sons,
who stood by his chair during all the entertainment: they
were pretty little boys, with' gaudy dresses, and their hair
dressed in high shewy top-knots.
During the early part of the feast, our presents were
brought in on trays, and laid at thefeet of the Chief: the old
man rose and saw them arranged, he then made a graceful bow,
and acknowledged his satisfaction, observing that we had sent
him too much, and had done him more honour than he was
entitled to, and that he could not think’of acceptingthe whole.
This we considered matter of form, and in reply lamented
our inability to make suitable presents; upon which he sat
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