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After this ceremony breakfaft was ferved up. The Indians then prefented to thecaptain, on the part of the King of Zubu, large balkets full of rice, hogs, goats, andfowls, making excufes at the fame time for the unfuitablenefs of the prefent to thedignity of fo great a perfonage.

The captain-general in return prefented to the Prince a very fine piece of whiteWoollen cloth, a red cap, fome firings of glafs beads, and a glafs goblet gilt, glafs beingin high requeft among thefe people. He made no prefent to the King of Maflana,as he had juft previoufly given him a Cambayan veil and feveral other things. Hemade prefents at the fame time to all the fuite of the embaffy.

After the iflanders had left us, the captain fent me on fhore, in company with anotherperfon, to carry the prefent defigned for the King, which confifted of a veft of yellowand violet coloured filk, made after the Turkilh falhion, a red cap, and fomefirings of cryftal beads in a filver dilh; with two gilt glafies, which we carried in°ur hands.

On reaching the town we found the King in his palace furrounded by a large con-courfe of people. He was feated on the ground on a mat of palm. He was naked,a girdle excepted which he wore about his loins, and which ferved to hide his fexualparts; around his head he wore a veil embroidered with the needle, on his neck acollar of great value, and in his ears two gold rings of great fize fet with preciousfiones. He was fmall in ftature, plump, and painted with different figures burnt intothe Ikin # . Before him on another mat, in two vafes of porcelain, were fome turtles’e ggs, of which he was eating, and near them four pitchers of palm wine covered with°doriferous herbs. In each of thefe pitchers was a hollow reed, by means of whichfie drank f.

After falutation on our part, the interpreter informed the King that the captainReturned thanks for the prefent made him, and on his part had fent him certain articles,n ot as a compenfation, but as teftimonials of the fincere friendlhip he had lately con-tfa&ed. After this preface we clothed him in the veft we brought, put the cap on hisfi ea d, and proffered the other prefents. Before I gave him the glafs goblets, I kiffedail d raifed them above my head: the King on receiving them did the fame. He thenmade us partake of his eggs, and drink of his wine through the reeds he ufed himfelf.^hile we were regaling, thofe who had come from the fliip related to him what the£ a ptain had faid refpefding peace, and the manner in which he had exhorted them to em-firace Chriftianity.

he King wilhed us to ftay and fup with him, but we excufed ourfelves and took^ur leave. The Prince, his fon-in-law, conducted us to his own houfe, where we found° Ur girls playing on mufic after their manner : one was beating a drum fimilar to our° w u, but placed on the ground J ; another had two kettle drums befide her, and inea ch hand a fmall drum ftick, the end of it armed with cloth made of the palm, withh^h fhe ftruck firft one and then the other; the third was beating in the famemanner a large kettle-drum; and the fourth held in her hands two fmall cymbals,mch {he alternately ftruck one againft the other and which rendered an extremely

At prefent the favages no longer ufe fire for tattooing themfelves, but either make incifions, into'ch they inftife colouring liquids, or apply caultic juices to the tkin for the purpofe

"he pr,£tice of drawing up their drink through reeds was remarked among thefe people by

..A f' ver > now in the iflands of the South Sea drums and cymbals ate the chief iuliniments of mufic inw ’th the inhabitants.

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