CHAPTER XLVII.

Visit to a Distinguished Chief.--His House and Attendants.--Babies Swimming.--Making Fire with Sticks.--An Ancestor Embalmed.--Catholics.--Vagabonds and Deserters.--Whaling Interests. 387

Sail from Marquesas--for Society Group.--Tahiti.--Port of Papeetee.--The Reef.--Shores and Batteries.--Missionaries.--Melville. 393