ets of the sentries, to be loaded with small shot, and to
authorise them to fire on particular occasions. I took it for granted,
therefore, that this man had only been wounded with small shot. But Mr
King and Mr Anderson, in an excursion into the country, met with him,
and found indubitable marks of his having been wounded, but not
dangerously, with a musquet ball. I never could find out how this
musquet happened to be charged with ball; and there were people enough
ready to swear, that its contents were only small shot.

Mr Anderson's account of the excursion just mentioned, will fill up an
interval of two days, during which nothing of note happened at the
ships: "Mr King and I went, on the 30th, along with Futtafaihe, as
visitors to his house, which is at Mooa, very near that of his brother
Poulaho. A short time after we arrived, a pretty large hog was killed;
which is done by repeated strokes on the head. The hair was then
scraped off, very dexterously, with the sharp edge of pieces of split
bamboo, taking the entrails out at a large oval hole cut in the belly,
by the same simple instrument. Before this, they had prepared an oven,
which is a large hole dug in the earth, filled at the bottom with
stones, about the size of the fist; over which a fire is made till they
are red hot. They took some of these stones, wrapt up in leaves of the
bread-fruit tree, and filled the hog's belly, stuffing in a quantity of
leaves, to prevent their falling out, and putting a plug of the same
kind in the _anus_. The carcass was then placed on some sticks laid
across the stones, in a standing posture, and covered with a great
quantity of plantain leaves. After which, they dug up the earth all
round; and having thus effectually closed the oven, the operation of
baking required no farther interference.

"In the mean time we walked about the country, but met with nothing
remarkable, except a _fiatooka_ of one house, standing on an artificial
mount, at least thirty feet high. A little on one side of it, was a
pretty large open area, and not far off, was a good deal of uncultivated
ground, which, on enquiring why it lay waste, our guides seemed to say,
belonged to the _fiatooka_, (which was Poulaho's,) and was not, by any
means, to be touched. There was also, at no great distance, a number of
_etoa_ trees, on which clung vast numbers of the large _ternate_ bats,
making a disagreeable noise. We could not kill any, at this time, for
want of m