As for me, he treated me with great respect, always calling me _ecroue_--father, and made me sit down on a large trunk of a tree before his house; which was, doubtless, his throne, for he placed me there with great ceremony, rubbing his royal nose against mine.

After the dance was concluded, the women retired to the hut, and returned to offer us a collation, served up in the shells of cocoa-nuts.
It was a sort of paste, composed, I believe, of different sorts of fruit, mixed up with a kind of flour and the milk of the cocoa-nut.

This mixture was detestable to me; but I made up for it with some kernel of cocoa-nuts and the bread-fruit.

Perceiving that I liked these, Bara-ourou ordered some of them to be gathered, and carried to the pinnace.
The hut was backed by a wood of palms and other trees, so that our provision was readily made.

Still there was time for my sons to run to the pinnace, attended by Parabery, and bring from the chest some beads, mirrors, scissors, needles and pins, to distribute to the ladies.