THE TONGA ISLANDS.

247

pronounced it), or, probably, Selby, an English-man, in a vessel belonging to Botany Bay, toreside there. At this latter place be and hiswife remained about two years, and now, ontheir return to Tonga , finding the island in suchan unsettled state, they chose rather, (notwith-standing the earnest entreaties of their friends)to go back again to Botany Bay. The accountthey gave of the English customs at this place,and the treatment they at first met with, it maybe worth while to mention. The first thingthat he and his wife had to do, when they ar-rived at the governor’s house, where they wentto reside, was to sweep out a large court yard,and clean down a great pair of stairs; in vainthey endeavoured to explain, that in their owncountry they were chiefs, and, being accustomedto be waited on, were quite unused to suchemployments : their expostulations were takenno notice of, and work they must. At firsttheir life was so uncomfortable, that they wishedto die ; no one seemed to protect them ; all thehouses were shut against them ; if they saw anybody eating, they were not invited to partake :nothing was to be got without money, of whichthey could not comprehend the value, nor howthis same money was to be obtained in anyquantity; if they asked for it, nobody wouldgive them any, unless they worked for it, and