His majesty re-embarked in his double pirogue, at about six o'clock in the evening.

It was manned by twenty-four men.

A great chest, containing firearms, was lashed over the centre of the two canoes forming the pirogue; and it was there that Tamehameha sat, with his prime-minister at his side.
In the morning, on the 22d, we sent our water-casks ashore and filled them with excellent water.

At about noon his sable majesty paid us another visit, accompanied by his three wives and his favorite minister.
These females were of an extraordinary corpulence, and of unmeasured size.

They were dressed in the fashion of the country, having nothing but a piece of _tapa_, or bark-cloth, about two yards long, passed round the hips and falling to the knees.