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Soon after the King and his attendants went away alfo. Both thcfe chiefs, when onboard, folicited him to aflift them againft Tiarabou, but to their felicitations he gave noencouragement.
On the 28th, one of the natives attempting.to fteal a water-cafk from the watering-place, he was caught in the aft, lent on board, and put in irons; in which fituationOtoo and the other chiefs faw him. Having made known his crime to them, Qtoobegged he might be fet at liberty. This the captain refufed, telling him, that fmee hepunifhed his people*, when they committed the lead offence againft the natives, it wasbut juft this man fhould be -punifhed alfo ; and as hd knew he would not do it, he wasrefolved to do it himfelf. xlccordingly, he ordered the man to be carried on fhore tothe tents, and having followed, with Otoo, Towha, and others, he ordered the guardout, under arms, and the man to be tied up to a poft, Otoo, his fifter, and fome othersbegged hard for him; Towha faid not one word, but was very attentive to every thinggoing forward. The captain expoftulated with Otoo on the conduft of this man, and ofhis people in general; telling him, that neither he, nor any of his people, took any thingfrom them, without firft paying for it; enumerating the articles they gave in exchangefor fuch and fuch things, and urging that it was wrong in them to fteal from thofe whowere their friends. He moreover told him, that the punifhing this man would be themeans of faving the lives of others of his people, by deterring them from committingcrimes of this nature. With thefe and other arguments, which he pretty well under-ftood, he feemed fatisfied, and only defired the man might not be matterou (or killed).The captain then ordered the crowd, which was very great, to be kept at a properdiftance, and in the prefence of them all, ordered the fellow two dozen of lafhes with acat-o’-nine-tails, which he bore with great firmnefs, and was then fet at liberty.After this the natives were going away ; but Towha ftepped forth, called them back,2nd harangued them for near half an hour. His fpeech confifted of fhort fentences,which were not well underftood ; but from what they could gather, he recapitulatedpart of what he had faid to Otoo, named feveral advantages they had received fromthe captain, contemned their prefent conduft, and recommended a different one for thefuture. The gracefulnefs of his aftion, and the attention with which he was heard,befpoke him a great orator.
Otoo faid not one word. As foon as Towha had ended his fpeech, the captainordered the marines to go through their exercife, and to load and fire in vollies withball: and as they were very quick in their manoeuvres, it is eafier to conceive than todefcribe the amazement the natives were under the whole time, elpecially thofe whobad not feen any thing of the kind before.
This being over, the chiefs took leave and retired with all their attendants, fcarcelymore pleafed than frightened at what they had feen.
They had a very great fupply of provifions, fent and brought by different chiefs,° n the 1 ft of May; and the next day received a prefent from Towha, fent by hisb^rvants, conftfting of a hog, and a boat-load of various forts of fruits and roots,bhe like prefent they alfo had from Otoo, brought by Tarevatoo,'who ftayed dinner.
On going alhore in the morning of the 7th, they found Otoo at the tents, and took*be opportunity to alk his leave to cut down fome trees for fuel, which he readilygranted. The captain told him he fhould cut down no trees that bore any fruit.■He was pleafed with this declaration, and told it aloud feveral times to the peopleabout them.
During the night, between the 7th and 8th, fome time in the middle watch, all theirrj endly conneftions received an interruption, through the negligence of one of the
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