id not appear to be at all offended by the way
Captain Hawkins had treated him on his first visit, at once came on
board, and appeared to be excessively friendly. He spoke English
remarkably well, having learned it on board a whaler in his youth, and
kept it up by frequently talking to runaway sailors who had remained at
the island. He invited the captain to go ashore and visit him in his
palace, the name we gave to the great hut in which he lived.

"With great pleasure, king," answered the captain: "but fair play's a
jewel, you know. If I go to visit you, your brother here will remain on
board to keep my mates company till I return."

The captain told Mr Griffiths to keep a strict watch on the king's
brother, and not to allow him to leave the cabin lest he might slip
overboard and swim on shore.

We called the young savage Charlie, though that was not his real name.
Charlie, who spoke a little English, seemed perfectly content; and when
the king and the captain went on shore, descended to the cabin without
the slightest hesitation. As the stern-windows, through which Charlie
might have squeezed himself if he had had a mind, were left open for the
sake of the air, Mr Griffiths told me to remain in the cabin whenever
he was on deck. At night he was locked up in the state-room. I don't
know that the captain was very well pleased at having the savage
sleeping in his bed.

Next morning the captain came back, saying that he had been hospitably
treated. In the afternoon, as Charlie wished to return, and as the
doctor and several men were on shore, the captain sent me, with Miles
Soper and Brown, to bring the king off, that he might take his brother's
place.

We pulled up a long narrow creek for several miles, till we arrived at
the royal residence, which was a large hut with a framework of poles and
roofed over with matting. Near it were other huts, and a number of
natives were employed in different ways, some pounding kava between two
large stones, when the root, thus thoroughly bruised, was thrown into
water. This is a much pleasanter way of preparing the beverage than by
employing the women to chew it, as is done in Samoa.

The king was away when we arrived, and we had thus plenty of time to
walk about the village and look around us. Some natives were engaged in
cooking fish and yams. This was done by putting them into a hole on the
top of some hot stones and leaves, and then covering them up with more
ho