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things of little value; and he was exceedinglysorry he had not secured all the dollars out ofthe Port au Prince , before he had ordered herto be burnt: “ I had always thought,” said he,

that your ship belonged to some poor fellow,“ perhaps to king George’s cook*; for captain“ Cook’s ship, which belonged to the king, had“ plenty of beads, axes, and looking-glasses on“ board, whilst yours had nothing but iron“ hoops, oil, skins, and twelve thousand paanga“ as I thought: but if every one of these was“ money, your ship must have belonged to a“ very great chief indeed.”

Finow and his chiefs having now remainedat the Hapai islands nearly six weeks, resolvedto return to Vavaoo, and the following day setsail: the prince and Mr. Mariner accompanyingthem. As soon as they arrived at Vavaoo, theking gave orders that all the dogs in the island,except a few that belonged to chiefs, should bekilled, because they destroyed the game, par-ticularly the kalai; after which he promisedhimself great sport with his favourite bird. Asthe breed of dogs was scarce at these islands,there were not more than fifty or sixty killed on

games at the end of the second volume) : they supposeddollars to be used among us for a similar purpose.

* At these islands a cook is considered one of the lowest ofmankind in point of rank.