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the occasion; but on these several of the chiefsmade, a hearty repast. Finow was particularlyfond of dog’s flesh, but he ordered it to becalled pork; because women and many menhad a degree of abhorrence at this sort of diet.The parts of the dog in most esteem are theneck and hinder quarters. The animal is killedby blows on the head, and cooked in the samemanner as a hog: Mr. Mariner has frequentlypartaken of it, and found it very good ; thefat is considered excellent. At the Sandwichislands the practice was almost universal in Mr.Mariner’s time, so that more dog’s flesh waseaten than pork: the hogs being preserved tobe used as a trading commodity with Europeanand American vessels. At these last mentionedislands most of the male dogs are operatedupon, and afterwards fattened for the expresspurpose ; and Mr. Mariner thinks their fleshis nearly as good and tender as that of a suck-ing pig.

Finow having ordered all things to be gotready, went out early in the morning after hisarrival, to try the excellence of his bird; andhad very great sport. The day following hewent out again ; but the bird, from some causeor another, would not make any noise; andthis made him so angry that he knocked iton the ground, and beat it with an arrow,