T H E S O U T H SE A S , fee.
C H A P. IX.
A Walk into the Country.—"Phe PeeahRoah.—Prevailed on, by
the- &td«e/s:0? tfrd.&tefss, M defer. oW-I)epatture^Bread~
■ fru it Picm$s ‘ caHeBaS^MwB .the ShrpsM- ‘tfrjabf'&ah Hur- '
i bour.-^Fiftmg.-^’Nree- hfi'thg Ship's-. Gompaky d&fe¥fi.— In-
diferetion &$ Pffi^lei,®wShffie.^InflfaHce$ <tf ybtstifoufy.—
Maiirmng.-i^Bntt bmrtght- Mi (Dpanre by a fProphet.— 'The
PfeJerMrssrmo^ered,^Siifi^ippopsjWM-vythM‘i<lglli-nd~'
W feD H ^ SD A Y the ' 17th. This morning I took a' 1788.
' walk into th,tl country;, accompanied jay Neifoii and; PECE*BEEj
myv old' Friend Moannah.', The' breadth of'the border of wedneflay
10VTand,T* before' We.arrived at thp’robt, of the hiis; was ■ lJm
near thr^e miles. This part o f bur journey Was through
adeEghtfuI country, well covefAd.with bread-fruit and cocoa
nut ,tr©pw and lire wed,byifh.,' hpu|es,. in.' which were
fsvafihs of children.' w 4 then proceeded dong a valley,
Hill among jKoufes,’. with' plantations i) f' yarns'^ tarto, ‘the
clptir-plant, and their favourite root^ the Ava: there, were;
bread-fruit trees oh the fxdes of the hjTlsf,which were dwarfs
in^compafrion of thole on the. low land. ’ Our walk was
verymuqhinterrupted by' a river,' the, courffe' o f which
vtas fo fe'rpentine, that we had to'prols ifjfeVeraf' rimes^
being carried oyer oh men’s fhoiluei s.
On arriving-at a Morai, I faw a number of the natives.
-collecSted, and was informed that the priefts were performing
"their devotions. Sixteen men "were fitting bn their heels^,'
P in