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he greatly excelled the other orators. “He spoke,” says the author, “for a considerable time; and I could not behold, without admira tion, the graceful elegance of his deportment, and the appropriate accordance of his action. Holding his pattoo-pattoo* in his hand he walked up and down along the margin of the river with a firm and manly step. ’ ’ The debate was carried on by other speakers for some time longer; but at last it appeared that conciliatory counsels had carried the day. The two parties satisfied themselves with a sham fight, Wiveah merely presenting the injured Henou with a quantity of potatoes. The most singular part of the debate, how ever, was yet to come; for immediately after the sham fight, the old orator again rose, and, although vehement enough at the beginning of his harangue, became still more so as he pro ceeded, till at last he grew quite outrageous, and jumped about the field like a person out of his senses. In the latter part of the debate, Wiveah and Henou themselves took up the discussion of the question, and seem, by the account given, to have handled it with more mildness and good temper than almost any of their less interested associates. At the close of Wiveah’s last address, how ever, “his three wives,” says Nicholas, “now deemed it expedient to interpose their oratory, ‘patupatu.