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Otahah

The inhabitants as usual so that long before night we had purchasd 3 hoggs 21 fowls & as many yams & plantains as the boat would hold. indeed of these last we might have had any quantity & a more useful refreshment they are to us in my opinion even than the pork they have been for this week past boild & servd instead of bread every man in the ship is fond of them & with us in the Cabbin they agree much better than the Bread fruit did which sometimes gripd us but what makes any refreshments of this kind the more acceptable is that our bread is at present so full of vermin that notwistanding all possible care I have sometimes had 20 at a time in my mouth every one of which tasted as hot as mustard

The Island itself seemd more barren than Ulhietea tho much like it in produce bread fruit being less plentyfull than Plantains & Cocoa nuts The people perfectly the same so much so that I did not observe one new custom or any thing Else among them worth mention they were not very numerous but flockd from all Quarters to the boat wherever she went bringing with them whatever they had to sell. Here as well as in the rest of the Islands they paid us the same Compliment they are used to pay to their own Kings taking uncovering their shoulders
 

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