and sat down to drink cava, * putting him in a corner, and desiring him by signs to sit down, it being considered very disrespectful to stand up before a superior,—the principle of which point of etiquette will be explained in another place.

Whilst his persecutors were thus regaling themselves, a man entered the hut in great haste; and having said something to the company, took Mr Mariner away with him. As they were going along, they met one of the Sandwich islanders, whom the Port au Prince had brought from Anahooroo Bay, who gave Mr Mariner to understand that Finow, the king of the islands, had sent for him. On his arrival, the king beckoned to him, and made signs that he should sit near him, and as he entered the place, the women, who sat at the other end of the room, beholding his deplorable condition, with one voice uttered a cry of pity, beating their breasts, and exclaiming, O yaoo! chiodofa! Alas! poor young man! Fortunately for Mr Mariner, Finow had taken an extraordinary liking to him from the first moment he had seen him on board. He thought he was the captain's son, or at least a young chief of some consequence in his own country; and had given orders, that if they found it necessary to kill the white men, they should, at any rate, preserve Mr Mariner's life. The king now put his nose to his forehead (a mark of friendly salutation); and soon after observing that he was very dirty, and much wounded, he desired one of his women attendants to take him to a pond within the fencing of the

An infusion of the root of a species of the pepper plant, the mode of preparing which, and ceremony of drinking it, will be described hereafter.

house, where he might wash himself. On his res turn to the presence of the king, he was sent to the other end of the house, where he was oiled all over with sandal-wood oil, which felt very agree able, alleviating the smart of his wounds, and greatly refreshing him. He now received a mat to lie down on, where, overcome by fatigue, both of mind and body, he soon fell fast asleep. During the night he was awakened by one of the women, who brought him some baked pork and some yam; but being somehow prejudiced against the pork, lest it should be human flesh, he did not taste it, but ate heartily of the yam, not having tasted any thing since breakfast the preceding day.

On getting up the next morning, he was much surprised at perceiving every body with their heads -shaved-a practice which is always adopted at the burial of Tooitonga, a great personage hereafter to be described, whose funeral was performed that day. In the course of the morning, Finow took him on board the ship, where he was much gratified in meeting several of the crew, who had been ordered on board to bring it close in shore. The king's orders being understood, they cut the cables, and worked her through a very narrow passage, so full of rocks and shoals as to appear almost unnavigable. Through the medium of Tooi Tooi, the king was now informed, that unless his men (nearly 400 in number) were to sit down, and remain perfectly quiet, it would be impossible to work the ship; which orders being momently given, and implicitly obeyed, she was brought within half a cable's length of the shore, and run aground by Finow's directions.

CHAPTER III.

AFTER the ship was run aground, the following two or three days were employed in striking the masts, and conveying on shore two of the carronades and eight barrels of gunpowder, being all that remained fit for use. Many of the natives, in the mean while, were busily engaged in stripping the iron from the upper works, and knocking the hoops off the casks in the hold-iron being a most valuable commodity to them; and during these operations the ground tier of oil burst out, and suffocated eight of the natives. Three other men were at the same time severely wounded, by some butts bursting out on them while they were in the act of knocking off the hoops. In consequence of this great discharge of oil, the water in the hold was covered with it, to the depth of several feet. Two men, who had struggled out of it, strongly expressed their amazement afterwards, to Mr Mariner, at the difficulty they experienced in rising through the oil. They could swim in the water below easily enough; but as soon as they emerged from the water into the stratum of oil above, the less specific gravity of the latter rendered their ascent difficult. They comprehended the reason,

however, very well, as soon as he had learned the language sufficiently to explain it to them.

In the mean time, Finow, observing one of the natives busily employed cutting out the iron fid from the maintop gallant-mast, and as he was a low fellow, whom he did not choose should take such a liberty, he was resolved to put a stop to his work. Calling to a Sandwich islander, who was amusing himself on deck by firing off his musket, * he ordered him to bring that man down from aloft. Without the least hesitation, the Sandwicher levelled his piece, and instantly brought him down dead; upon which Finow laughed heartily, and seemed mightily pleased at the facility with which his order had been obeyed. The shot entered his body, and the fall broke both thighs. and fractured his skull. Afterwards, when Mr Mariner understood the language, he asked the king how he could be so cruel as to kill the poor man for so trifling a fault. His majesty replied, that he was only a low, vulgar fellow (a cook); and that neither his life nor death was of any consequence to society. †

On Tuesday, the 9th of December, it being spring-tides, the ship floated, and was warped in to low water mark; and in the evening they set fire to her, in order to get more easily at the iron work. All the great guns on board were load

The Sandwich islanders are pretty well acquainted with the use of fire-arms. Their chief had, at that time, 2000 stand of muskets, procured at different times from American ships.

The lower orders are thought to have no souls, and a cook is considered the most vulgar profession among them; while a carpenter is esteemed the most respectable,

ed, and as they began to be heated by the general conflagration, they went off, one after another, producing a terrible panic among the natives. Mr Mariner was, at this time, asleep at a house near the shore; being soon, however, awakened by the noise of the guns, he saw several of the natives running into the house in a great fright. They, no doubt, thought every thing was going to wreck and ruin. Seeing their distress, he gave them to understand by signs that nothing was to be feared, and that they might go to sleep in safety. After the guns had ceased firing, he went down to the beach, and found the ship burnt to the water's edge. He walked to the house again, filled with melancholy reflections, and, retiring to his mat, sleep at length brought a temporary relief to his afflictions. As soon as it was daylight, the natives flocked to the beach, and, by the direction and assistance of Mr Mariner and some of the crew, got five of the carronades on shore, by tying a rope round them, and dragging them with the main strength of two or three hundred men. A few days afterwards, three more carronades were brought on shore in like manner, and also four long guns, but which, on account of their weight, were never afterwards used.

About a week now elapsed without any material circumstance occurring, during which time Mr Mariner for the most part kept within doors, by the advice of Finow, lest he should be injured by the wantonness or malice of the lower orders, who took every opportunity of insulting him. On the 16th of December, Finow, having a mind to go to the island of Wiha, for the recreation of shoot